Counseling & Helping Relationships #9

Question 1

Gestalt therapists sometimes utilize the ________________ _________________ which asks the client to repeat and overemphasize a particular movement or expression in order to become more aware of the attached emotions.

Answer 1

Exaggeration Experiment

Question 2

A goal of gestalt therapy is to eliminate ________________ ________________ and replace it with _______________ _______________.

Answer 2

• “It” talk (eliminate)
• “I” statements (replace with)

Question 3

________________ incorporates role playing into the therapy process and asks clients to enact scenes from their lives, dreams, or fantasies in an effort to express feelings, gain insights, and practice more satisfying behaviors.

Answer 3

Psychodrama

Question 4

In gestalt theory, _______________ is the act of doing to yourself what you really wish to do to someone else.

Answer 4

Retroflection

Question 5

Gestalt means ________________.

Answer 5

A form, figure, or configuration unified as a whole (i.e., the integrated whole is greater than the sum of its parts)

Question 6

Gestalt therapy suggests five layers of neurosis that must be peeled away to reach emotional stability. They are:

Answer 6

1. Phony layer
2. Phobic layer
3. Impasse layer
4. Implosive layer
5. Explosive layer

Question 7

In gestalt therapy, unexpressed emotions that interfere with present situations and cause difficulties are known as _______________ ________________.

Answer 7

Unfinished business

Question 8

Awareness in the here-and-now and dream work are emphasized in _________________ therapy.

Answer 8

Gestalt

Question 9

Gestalt assumes that anxiety is often actually _____________ _____________, which assumes the client has internally rehearsed a situation and is worried that their performance will be unsatisfactory.

Answer 9

Stage fright

Question 10

Critics of gestalt therapy argue that the modality fails to _____________.

Answer 10

Emphasize cognitive concerns

Question 11

Gestalt and existential psychotherapies are sometimes branded as _____________ _____________ because they urge clients to purge emotions in order to feel better about themselves.

Answer 11

Affective paradigms

Question 12

The peak period of competition between the various schools of counseling and therapy took place during _____________.

Answer 12

The late 1960s

Question 13

Humanistic psychology is also sometimes called _____________ _____________ psychology because it was a reaction to Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis.

Answer 13

Third force

Question 14

Rogerian person-centered therapy is typically categorized as a _____________ or _____________ approach to counseling.

Answer 14

Humanistic or Existential

Question 15

Rogerians speak of three conditions for the therapeutic atmosphere that produce a climate for growth. They are:

Answer 15

• Genuineness or congruence
• Unconditional positive regard
• Empathic understanding

Question 16

Carl Rogers viewed humans as positive when they develop in a ____________, ____________, and ____________ environment.

Answer 16

Warm, accepting, and trusting

Question 17

When a counselor is genuine, authentic, and does not put on a professional front, they are demonstrating ___________.

Answer 17

Congruence or genuineness

Question 18

Critics of the Rogerian person-centered approach to counseling feel that ____________.

Answer 18

It does not incorporate enough confrontation and is lacking in directiveness.

Question 19

The process after a relationship is built with the client is called the ___________ _____________ of counseling.

Answer 19

Action phase

Question 20

In Gerald Caplan’s ____________ mental health consultation model, the consultant advises the consultee, but does not see the client directly.

Answer 20

Psychodynamic

Question 21

In the ___________ or ___________ ____________ ____________ model of mental health consultation, the consultant designs behavioral change programs for the consultee to implement.

Answer 21

Behavioral or social learning theory

Question 22

In the ____________ consultation model, the consultant is paid to diagnose the problem and prescribe a solution. The focus is on the agency or organization, not the individual client.

Answer 22

Process

Question 23

In the ____________ ____________ _____________ consultation model, the consultee has identified the client’s problem and seeks support finding its solution.

Answer 23

Purchase of expertise

Question 24

In ____________ consultation model, the consultant works with a mediator to provide services to a client.

Answer 24

Triadic

Question 25

Counseling generally occurs in a ______________ setting, while consultation generally occurs in a _____________ or ____________ setting.

Answer 25

• Clinical (counseling)
• Work or organizational (consultation)