Gestalt Therapy
According to Gestalt theory, all of the following are true about contact EXCEPT:
(a)contact is necessary for change and growth to occur. (b)one maintains a sense of individuality as a result of good contact. Correct! (c) withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis. (d) contact is made by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving. (e)we often tend to resist contact with others
Awareness
Awareness if the goal
Counselor/Client Relationship
I/Thou Relationship
The now
IMPORTANT
Resistance to contact
Introjection Projection Retroflection Deflection Confluence
Goals Of Therapy
Promoting Awareness Live in the Here and Now Bring Closure to Unfinished Business Help people recognize resources they have within themselves Promote responsibility, choices, self-sufficiency Take Ownership (don't blame others, past etc...) Promote people's ability to have meaningful relationships Strive for self-actualization (integration) through healthy self-esteem and self-acceptance
Projection
Put it out on someone or something else
A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is most likely engaging in:
Retroflection
Which of the following aspects of a client's use of language would a Gestalt therapist NOTfocus on?
Semantics
Confluence
Striving to blend in & be liked Complete loss of self, enmeshed with environment In relationships: Absence of conflicts, slowness to anger
Introjection
Taking others ideas in uncritically
Deflection
The process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain a sustained sense of contact.
Retroflection
Unacceptable impulse is turned inward
Impasse
When unfinished business comes up and environmental support is not available
In Gestalt therapy, the relationship between client and counselor is seen as:
an I/Thou interaction.
The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:
attaining awareness, and with it greater choice
According to Gestalt theory, resolving unfinished business will:
be resolved when the client fully experiences the feelings associated with the past business in the present.
Field theory suggests that
everything in human experience is relational and in constant flux.
Gestalt-therapy techniques are designed to help the client:
expand awareness of the here-and-now
Empirical support for Gestalt therapy is:
is becoming stronger
The figure formation process suggests that:
what emerges from the "ground" is an indication of the individual's needs in the moment