Chapter 8

Question 1

Gestalt focuses on (5)

Answer 1

The here and now​
The what and how of experiencing​
The authenticity of the therapist​
Active dialogic inquiry and exploration​
The I/Thou of relating

Question 2

Emphasizes clients making contact with their field

Answer 2

Gestalt

Question 3

4 principles of gestalt

Answer 3

Holism, field theory, figure formation process, organism self-regulation

Question 4

The full range of human functioning includes thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, memories, and dreams.

Answer 4

Holism

Question 5

Client is a participant in a constantly changing field.​
Emphasis may be on a figure and on the ground

Answer 5

Field Theory

Question 6

How an individual organizes experiences from moment to moment​

Answer 6

Figure formation process

Question 7

Emergence of a need, a sensation, or an interest disturb an individual’s equilibrium

Answer 7

Organismic Self-Regulation

Question 8

Interacting with nature and with other people without losing one’s individuality

Answer 8

Contact

Question 9

Boundary disturbances/resistance to contact​

Answer 9

The defenses we develop to prevent us from experiencing the present fully​

Question 10

five different kinds of contact boundary disturbances (gestalt)

Answer 10

Introjection, projection, retroflection, deflection, confluence

Question 11

Unfinished business is associated with what theory

Answer 11

Gestalt

Question 12

________ energy is a form of defensive behavior that may result in unfinished business.​

Answer 12

Blocked (impasse)

Question 13

ready made techniques used to achieve a goal (gestalt)

Answer 13

Exercises

Question 14

Grow out of an interaction between client and therapist to increase awareness or new ways of thinking and behaving.

Answer 14

Experiments

Question 15

A role reversal technique to bring into consciousness the fantasies of what the “other” might be thinking or feeling.

Answer 15

The Empty-Chair Technique

Question 16

An anticipated event is brought into the present moment and acted out.​

Answer 16

Future Projection Technique

Question 17

It involves asking a person in a group to go up to others in the group and either speak to or do something with each person​

Answer 17

Making the Rounds

Question 18

As certain symptoms and behaviors often represent reversals of underlying or latent impulse a therapist could ask the client to role play

Answer 18

The Reversal Exercise

Question 19

Key figures Erving Polster, Miriam Polster, Fritz Perls

Answer 19

Gestalt

Question 20

Created on the premise that an individual must be understood in the context of their ongoing relationship with the environment

Answer 20

Gestalt

Question 21

The more we work at becoming whoo or what we are not, the more we remain the same

Answer 21

paradoxical theory of change

Question 22

Process by which equilibrium is disturbed by the emergence of a need, a sensation, or interest.

Answer 22

Organismic self-regulation

Question 23

Prerequisites for good contact

Answer 23

awareness, full energy, and the ability to express oneself

Question 24

When attributes of our personality that are inconsistent with our self image are disowned and assigned to another

Answer 24

Projection

Question 25

Process of turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do to someone else or doing to ourselves what we would like someone else to do to or for us

Answer 25

retroflection

Question 26

Blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment

Answer 26

Confluence

Question 27

When figures emerge from the background but are not completed and resolved, individuals are left with this

Answer 27

Unfinished business