6. Gestalt therapy

Question 1

Language techniques:

Answer 1

• Use of depersonalizing language (It instead of I= it’s difficult to make friends)
  -Global and impersonal language, keep person hidden (You talk)
• Questions, keep questioner hidden
• Language that denies power: disclaimers or qualifiers (mabye)
• Client metaphors (feel like i have a hole in my soul)

Question 2

Empty chair technique

Answer 2

Aims to help client do less talk and more doing. Experience it first-hand in the present.
Works well when the problem is associated with internal conflict or split.

Therapist: no interpretation
Client: own interpretation

Stages: discovery (awareness), accommodation (recognizing they have a choice), assimilation (influencing their environment)

Question 3

What are advances in humanistic therapies?
MI

Answer 3

Motivational Interviewing (MI): eliciting behaviour change, explore and resolve ambivalence.

Principles:
- avoid argumentation
- roll with resistance
- express empathy
- develop discrepancies
- support self-efficacy
- avoid harsh confrontations
- emphasize need for change and increase confidence and hope that it’s possible

Question 4

What are advances in humanistic therapies?
EFT

Answer 4

Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT): based on increasing awareness of emotion, enhancing emotion regulation and transforming emotion

Steps for case formulation:
- identify problem
- listen to and explore their narrative about the problem
- gather info about their attachment, identify histories, current relationships and concerns
- observe and attend to their style of processing emotions
- identify and respond to the painful aspects of their experience
- identify markers and address them by suggesting tasks for resolving problematic processes
- focus on thematic intrapersonal and interpersonal processes
- attend to their moment-by-moment processing