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