Gestalt Therapy

According to Gestalt theory, all of the following are true about contact EXCEPT:

(a)contact is necessary for change and growth to occur. (b)one maintains a sense of individuality as a result of good contact. Correct! (c) withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis. (d) contact is made by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and moving. (e)we often tend to resist contact with others

Awareness

Awareness if the goal

Counselor/Client Relationship

I/Thou Relationship

The now

IMPORTANT

Resistance to contact

Introjection Projection Retroflection Deflection Confluence

Goals Of Therapy

Promoting Awareness Live in the Here and Now Bring Closure to Unfinished Business Help people recognize resources they have within themselves Promote responsibility, choices, self-sufficiency Take Ownership (don't blame others, past etc...) Promote people's ability to have meaningful relationships Strive for self-actualization (integration) through healthy self-esteem and self-acceptance

Projection

Put it out on someone or something else

A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is most likely engaging in:

Retroflection

Which of the following aspects of a client's use of language would a Gestalt therapist NOTfocus on?

Semantics

Confluence

Striving to blend in & be liked Complete loss of self, enmeshed with environment In relationships: Absence of conflicts, slowness to anger

Introjection

Taking others ideas in uncritically

Deflection

The process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain a sustained sense of contact.

Retroflection

Unacceptable impulse is turned inward

Impasse

When unfinished business comes up and environmental support is not available

In Gestalt therapy, the relationship between client and counselor is seen as:

an I/Thou interaction.

The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:

attaining awareness, and with it greater choice

According to Gestalt theory, resolving unfinished business will:

be resolved when the client fully experiences the feelings associated with the past business in the present.

Field theory suggests that

everything in human experience is relational and in constant flux.

Gestalt-therapy techniques are designed to help the client:

expand awareness of the here-and-now

Empirical support for Gestalt therapy is:

is becoming stronger

The figure formation process suggests that:

what emerges from the "ground" is an indication of the individual's needs in the moment