Gestalt Therapy Quiz
What is a limitation of Gestalt therapy as it is applied to working with culturally diverse populations?
All of the above.
Gestalt therapy can BEST be characterized as
An experiential therapy.
The process of blurring awareness of the boundary between self and environment is
Confluence.
A contribution of the Gestalt approach is that it
Deals with the past in a lively manner.
The process of distraction, which makes it difficult to maintain sustained contact, is
Deflection.
Gestalt therapy encourages clients to
Do all of the above.
The impasse is the point in therapy at which clients
Do all of the above.
A major function of the therapist is to make interpretations of client's behavior so that they can begin to think of their patterns.
False
Gestalt techniques are primarily aimed at teaching clients to think rationally.
False
Recent trends in Gestalt practice include more emphasis on confrontation, more anonymity of the therapist, and increased reliance on techniques.
False
The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is adjustment to society.
False
The main founder of Gestalt therapy is
Fritz Perls.
Which of the following is NOT a key concept of Gestalt therapy?
Intellectual understanding of one's problems.
The tendency to uncritically accept others' beliefs without assimilating or internalizing them is
Introjection.
According to the Gestalt view, awareness
Is by itself therapeutic.
The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is to help clients
Move from environmental support to self-support.
The focus of Gestalt therapy is on
Recognizing one's own projections and refusing to accept helplessness.
The process of turning back to ourselves what we would like to do to someone else
Retroflection.
Which is NOT true Gestalt therapy?
The focus is on the "why" of behavior.
Blocked energy can be considered a form of resistance.
True
Dreams contain existential messages, and each piece of dream work leads to assimilation of disowned aspects of the self.
True
Gestalt therapy is well suited for group counseling, especially when there is a here-and-now emphasis within the group.
True
One of the functions of the therapist is to pay attention to the client's body language.
True
Resistance refers to defenses we develop that prevent us from experiencing the present in a full and real way.
True
The founder of Gestalt therapy contends that the most frequent source of unfinished business is resentment.
True
