512 chapter 8- GESALT

What caveat should be made in the minds of Gestalt therapists carrying out experiments with their clients?

Clients must decide whether to participate in experiments or not for learning more about themselves.

A major function of the therapist is to make interpretations of clients' behavior so that they can begin to think about their patterns.

FALSE

Contemporary relational Gestalt therapy combines sustained empathic inquiry with awareness on what one may perceive based on past experience.

FALSE

Gestalt groups invite members to try different behavioral styles as a way to heighten what a given member might be experiencing at the moment.

FALSE

In the Gestalt approach, confrontation is considered a set of negative traits of clients.

FALSE

The main founder of Gestalt therapy is

FRITZ PEARLS

Which is not true of Gestalt therapy?

Gesalt therapy does not focus on the "why" of behavior

Which of the following is a shortcoming of Gestalt therapy as it is applied to working with culturally diverse populations?

Gestalt methods can lead to a high level of intense feelings that would be used with clients who have been culturally conditioned to be emotionally reserved and to avoid openly expressing feelings.

Which of the following is a key strength of Gestalt therapy?

Integration of theory, practice, and research

According to the Gestalt view, awareness

Is by itself therapeutic.

Authentic change that occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we are not is called the paradoxical theory of change.

TRUE

Contemporary Gestalt therapy places much less emphasis on resistance than the early version of Gestalt therapy.

TRUE

Dreams contain existential messages, and each piece of dream work leads to assimilation of missing parts 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

Resistances to contact refer to coping processes we develop that often end up preventing us from experiencing the present in a full and real way.

TRUE

Gestalt therapy can best be characterized as

an experiential therapy.

The major focus of Gestalt therapy is on

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.

In Gestalt therapy, the process of blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment is known as

confluence

A contribution of the Gestalt approach is that it

deals with the past in a lively manner by bringing relevant aspects into the present.

The impasse is the point in therapy at which clients

experience a sense of "being stuck."

Intellectual understanding of one's problems is__________ a key concept of Gesalt therapy.

not

Gestalt therapy encourages clients to do all of the following except

not pay attention to their own nonverbal messages.

The Gestalt view of human nature isn't rooted in all the ______ approach

person centered

The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is to help clients

move from environmental to self support