Gestalt Therapy

The power and responsibility for the present are in the hands of the:

Client

Contact is something that happens between people, something that arises from the interaction between them. The Gestalt therapist surrenders himself or herself to this interpersonal process, showing:

Commitment to dialogue Explanation: Contact is more than something two people do to each other. Contact is something that happens between people, something that arises from the interaction between them. The Gestalt therapist surrenders himself or herself to this interpersonal process.

Which of the following is a major objective of Gestalt theory:

Deal with unfinished business.

Awareness without systematic exploration is not ordinarily sufficient to:

Develop insight Explanation: Awareness without systematic exploration is not ordinarily sufficient to develop insight. Therefore, Gestalt therapy uses focused awareness and experimentation to achieve insight.

What process contends that creating the conditions under which a dialogic moment might occur, the therapist attends to his or her own presence and creates the space for the client to enter in and become present as well?

Dialogical relationship Explanation: To create the conditions under which a dialogic moment might occur, the therapist attends to his or her own presence, creates the space for the client to enter in and become present as well (called inclusion), and commits himself or herself to the dialogic process.

One of the basic concepts of the Gestalt therapy is:

Dialogue Explanation: Gestalt therapy theory rests atop essentially four "load-bearing walls": phenomenological method, dialogical relationship, field-theoretical strategies, and experimental freedom.

Regarding the phenomenological method, in the rule of description, one occupies himself or herself with describing instead of:

Explaining Explanation: The phenomenological method is comprised of three steps: (1) the rule of epoch, (2) the rule of description, and (3) the rule of horizontalization. In the rule of description, the individual occupies him or herself with describing instead of explaining.

Who coined the term Gestalt therapy?

Fritz Perls Explanation: Frederick Salomon Perls, better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He coined the term Gestalt therapy.

Using ________ combined with Gestalt psychology, Perls found the ideas for his homeostasis, top-dog and underdog, contact and withdrawal, and figure-ground formation.

Goldstein's organismic theory Explanation: Goldstein's organismic theory stressed the organismic integrity of individual behavior and its drive to self-actualization.

The Gestalt therapist contrives experiments that lead the client to:

Greater awareness of his or her possibilities

A Gestalt technique to raise a client's awareness of resistance being expressed in his or her body is:

Having the client exaggerate the symptoms in order to fully experience them

The __________ states that the mind continues visual, auditory, and kinetic patterns.

Law of continuity

Transference, explored and worked through as it arises, is ___________ by the Gestalt therapist.

Not encouraged

Regarding the phenomenological method, the rule of epoch requires the client to set aside his or her:

Prejudices Explanation: In the rule of epoch, the individual sets aside his or her initial biases and prejudices in order to suspend expectations and assumptions.

A technique in Gestalt that consumes much energy and frequently inhibits spontaneity is:

Rehearsal

Gestalt therapy excludes the therapist's narcissistically teaching the client rather than being contactful and expediting the client's:

Self-discovery Explanation: Gestalt therapists do work with belief systems such as clarifying thinking, explicating beliefs, and mutually deciding what fits for the client.

Psychological projection was a theory developed by:

Sigmund Freud Explanation: Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the unwanted subconscious impulses and desires without letting the ego recognize them. The theory was developed by Sigmund Freud and further refined by his daughter Anna Freud. For this reason, it is sometimes referred to as "Freudian projection"

The focus of Gestalt therapy is on:

The here and now

Gestalt therapy helps clients develop their own support for desired contact or:

Withdrawal Explanation: Gestalt therapy helps clients develop their own support for desired contact or withdrawal. Support refers to anything that makes contact or withdrawal possible: energy, body support, breathing, information, concern for others, language, and so forth. Support mobilizes resources for contact or withdrawal.