Chapter 8 Gestalt Therapy Practice Questions
11) The tendency to uncritically accept others' beliefs and standards without assimilating them to make them congruent with who we are is a. introjection. b. projection. c. retroflection. d. confluence. e. deflection.
A
12) What is a limitation (or limitations) of Gestalt therapy as it is applied to working with culturally diverse populations? a. Gestalt methods can lead to a high level of intense feelings would be used with clients who have been culturally conditioned to be emotionally reserved and to avoid openly expressing feelings.. b. Drawing on Gestalt experiments they can be tailored to fit the unique way in which an individual perceives and interpret his or her culture. c. Focusing on gestures, facial expressions, and experiences within the body helps clients whose cultural norm is indirect and limited speech. d. Gestalt therapists remain receptive to how clients' realities differ from their own.
A
17) According to the Gestalt view, awareness a. is by itself therapeutic. b. is a necessary, but not suffi cient, condition for change. c. without specifi c behavioral change is useless. d. consists of understanding the causes of one's problems.
A
2) The impasse is the point in therapy at which clients a. experience a sense of "being stuck" b. are expected to accept their frustrations. c. experience a sense of becoming "unstuck". d. have external support available to them.
A
22) Gestalt therapy encourages clients to do all of the following except a. not pay attention to their own nonverbal messages. b. experience internal conflicts. c. resolve inconsistencies and dichotomies. d. work through the impasse.
A
9) The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is to help clients a. move from environmental support to self-support. b. recognize which ego state they are functioning in. c. uncover unconscious motivations. d. work through the transference relationship with the therapist. e. challenge their philosophy of life.
A
16) Which of the following is not a key concept of Gestalt therapy? a. acceptance of personal responsibility b. intellectual understanding of one's problems c. awareness of the present moment d. unfi nished business e. dealing with the impasse
B
4) Gestalt therapy can best be characterized as a. an insight therapy. b. an experiential therapy c. an action-oriented therapy. d. an empirically validated treatment.
B
8) The main founder of Gestalt therapy is a. Carl Rogers. b. Fritz Perls. c. Albert Ellis. d. William Glasser. e. none of the above.
B
24) The major focus of Gestalt therapy is on a. the relationship between client and counselor and how well they get along. b. understanding why we feel as we do. c. assisting the client to become aware of how behaviors that were once part of creatively adjusting to past environments may be interfering with effective functioning and living in the present. d. free associating to the client's dreams in order to find out the specific issues the client is experiencing.
C
3) The process of turning back to ourselves what we would like to do to someone else is a. introjection. b. projection. c. retroflection. d. confluence. e. deflection.
C
14) A contribution of the Gestalt approach is that it a. sheds light on transference. b. is primarily a cognitive perspective. c. stresses talking about problems. d. deals with the past in a lively manner.
D
7) The process of blurring the differentiation between self and environment is a. introjection. b. projection. c. retroflection. d. confluence..
D
13) The process of distraction, which makes it difficult to maintain sustained contact, is a. introjection. b. projection. c. retroflection. e. deflection.
E
19) Which is not true of Gestalt therapy? a. The focus is on the "what" and "how" of behavior. b. The focus is on the here and now. c. The focus is on integrating fragmented parts of the personality. d. The focus is on unfi nished business from the past. e. The focus is on the "why" of behavior.
E
10) Gestalt techniques are primarily aimed at teaching clients to think rationally.
F
15) Recent trends in Gestalt practice include more emphasis on Confrontation, more anonymity of the therapist, and increased reliance on techniques.sent moment.
F
20) A major function of the therapist is to make interpretations of clients' behavior so that they can begin to think of their patterns.
F
6) The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is adjustment to society.
F
1) Gestalt therapy is well suited for group counseling, especially when there is a here-and-now emphasis within the group.
T
18) Blocked energy can be considered a form of resistance.
T
21) The founder of Gestalt therapy contends that the most frequent source of unfinished Business is resentment.
T
23) One of the functions of the therapist is to pay attention to the client's body language.
T
25) Dreams contain existential messages, and each piece of dream work leads to Assimilation of missing parts of the self.
T
5) Resistance refers to defenses we develop that prevent us from experiencing the present in a full and real way.
T