Chapter 8- Gestalt Therapy
e. semantics
Which of the following aspects of a client's use of language would a Gestalt therapist not focus on
a. assessment
Which of the following is not considered one of the six methodological components of Gestalt therapy?
a. reunification
Which of the following is not one of Miriam Polster's three stages in her integration sequence?
b. evoking group catharsis.
Which of the following is not one of the Gestalt group leader's roles?
TRUE
19. Gestalt therapies view a client's avoidance behavior as related to unfinished business.
FASLE
2. The Gestalt therapist typically uses diagnosis and interpretation as a basic part of the therapeutic process.
TRUE
20. Blocked energy is a form of defensive behavior.
FALSE
21. Retroflection involves doing to others what we would like them to do to us.
TRUE
22. In Gestalt therapy, a client's resistance is welcomed and used to deepen their therapeutic work.
TRUE
23. People who rely on retroflection tend to inhibit themselves from taking action out of fear of embarrassment, guilt, and resentment.
TRUE
24. A current trend in Gestalt therapy is toward greater emphasis on the client/therapist relationship rather than on techniques
FALSE
25. Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is synonymous with Gestalt therapy.
FALSE
26. Since Gestalt therapy focuses on the here-and-now, the past is neither explored nor given emphasis.
TRUE
27. In Gestalt terms, awareness refers to our connectedness to our external and internal worlds.
TRUE
28. Fritz Perls' wife Laura stated, "Without the constant support from his friends, and from me, without the constant encouragement and collaboration, Fritz would never have written a line, nor founded anything."
TRUE
29. Although Perls used a highly confrontational approach in dealing with client avoidance and resistance, the confrontational model is not representative of contemporary Gestalt therapy.
TRUE
3. In the Gestaltist view, unfinished business is best explored in the present.
TRUE
30. Gestalt group therapists use experiments to encourage clients to move from talking about action to taking action.
TRUE
4. A Gestalt therapist pays attention to ways the client uses language.
c. everything in human experience is relational and in constant flux.
Field theory suggests that:
d. all of these
Gestalt therapists say that clients resist contact by means of
d. existential therapy.
Gestalt therapy is a form of:
b. a theoretical proposition crafted to fit the client's unique needs.
In Gestalt theory, the experiment is considered:
d. all of these
In Gestalt therapy, the relationship between client and counselor is seen as
FASLE
5. Therapy is based upon the successful resolution of the transference relationship.
TRUE
6. Both contact and withdrawal are necessary and important to healthy functioning
TRUE
7. Gestalt therapy makes use of a wide variety of techniques that are designed to increase the client's awareness of his or her present experiencing.
FALSE
8. According to Perls, awareness of and by itself is not sufficient to lead to change; clients must also put their experiences into some type of cognitive framework if change is to happen.
FASLE
9. The Gestalt approach to dream work consists of the therapist interpreting the meaning of the symbols in the dream.
d. projection.
A healthy contact experience involves all of the following except:
c. retroflection.
A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is most likely engaging in:
c. withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis.
According to Gestalt theory, all of the following are true about contact except:
d. all of these
According to Gestalt theory, people use avoidance in order to:
a. they may be refusing to face what is wrong with their lives.
According to the Gestalt perspective, if people do not remember their dreams:
d. confluence.
Because of his need to be liked, Jose makes careful efforts to get along with everyone and minimize interpersonal conflicts. Which boundary disturbance is Jose exhibiting?
d. an element of therapy that needs to be respected.
Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as:
c. becoming stronger.
Empirical support for Gestalt therapy is:
b. can be the heart of the therapeutic process since people are storytelling beings.
Erv Polster believes that storytelling:
e. all of these.
The empty chair technique:
c. the internal dialogue exercise
When a person experiences an internal conflict (namely a conflict between top dog and underdog), which of the following techniques would be most appropriate?
c. making the rounds
Which of the following Gestalt techniques involves asking one person in a group to speak to each of the other group members?
b. During his childhood, he was a model student.
Which of the following is not true about Fritz Perls?
d. Experiments are always carried out during the therapy session, rather than outside it.
Which of the following is not true about Gestalt techniques?
a. It is not possible to be both confrontational and gentle with clients.
Which of the following is not true about the Gestalt view of the role of confrontation in therapy?
c. EFT blends the relational aspects of the person-centered approach with the active phenomenological awareness experiments of Gestalt therapy.
Which of the statements below regarding emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is not true?
a. Fritz Perls
Who among the following is not considered a relational Gestalt therapist?
FASLE
15. Gestalt therapy focuses on the cognitive aspects of therapy. F
TRUE
16. Gestalt techniques can be considered experiments.
TRUE
17. Part of success in using Gestalt techniques is contingent upon preparing clients for these techniques.
TRUE
18. Most of the Gestalt techniques are designed to intensify one's experiencing
FASLE
1. Gestalt theory is best considered as a form of psychoanalytic therapy.
TRUE
10. Since Gestalt therapists believe that questions have a tendency to keep the questioner hidden, safe, and unknown, they often ask clients to change their questions into statements.
FALSE
11. Gestalt therapy is designed for individual counseling, and it typically does not work well in groups
FALSE
12. One of the contributions of Gestalt therapy is the vast empirical research that has been done to validate the specific techniques used.
FALSE
13. The goal of Gestalt therapy is to solve basic problems, to resolve one's polarities, and to help the individual to adjust to his or her environment.
TRUE
14. Gestaltists typically ask why questions in the attempt to get clients to think about the source of their problems.
b. the reversal exercise.
A Gestalt technique that is most useful when a person attempts to deny an aspect of his or her personality (such as tenderness) is:
d. all of these.
A contribution of this therapeutic approach is that:
b. the approach to confrontation.
A critical difference between early Gestalt therapy and relational Gestalt therapy is:
c. should assist her client in reliving the dream as though it was happening in the now and have her become each part of the dream.
Mariah tells her therapist, a Gestaltist, that she dreamt she got married to a pit bull and felt uneasy about telling her parents that she married a dog. When her parents discovered their son-in-law was a pit bull, they disowned her and suddenly became dogs themselves. In response to this dream, Mariah's therapist:
a. ask Greta to exaggerate her poor posture, which is likely to intensify her feelings attached to it.
Often Greta, who struggles to feel good about herself, comes to sessions with slouched posture. In order to help Greta gain a clearer understanding of the inner meaning of her slouched posture, a Gestalt therapist might:
b. pays attention to the client's nonverbal language.
The Gestalt therapist:
a. attaining awareness, and with it greater choice.
The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:
d. we change through becoming aware of who we currently are.
The paradoxical theory of behavior change suggests:
e. all of these.
Without proper training, Gestalt therapists may:
