Final Exam - Gestalt

Question 1

view of human nature in gestalt therapy

Answer 1

individuals have the capacity to “self-regulate“ in their environment if they are fully aware of what is happening in and around them.

We change when we become aware of what we are as opposed to trying to become what we are not.

Question 2

Holism

Answer 2

Attending to clients thoughts, feelings, behaviours, body and dreams

Question 3

How does Gestalt deal with the past?

Answer 3

What and How questions, not why questions.

Bringing it into the present and remaining connected with the now.

Question 4

Exercises / Techniques

Answer 4

Techniques used to make something happen or to acheive a goal

Question 5

Now Ethos

Answer 5

Power is in the present.

Deal with the past by bringing it into the present.

Directing power to the past diminishes power.

Question 6

Contact

Answer 6

Interacting with nature and others without losing the sense of individuality

Question 7

Experiments

Answer 7

Procedures to bring about possibilities, for clients to try out new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving

Question 8

Unfinished business

Answer 8

Unexpressed feelings from childhood that interfere with current psychological functioning

Question 9

Goals of gestalt therapy

Answer 9

• awareness of environment, self
• reintegrate self
• make contact

Question 10

Role of the Gestalt therapist

Answer 10

• i/thou relationship

- Assists client in experiencing and interpreting feelings

Question 11

Dream Work

Answer 11

• Relive dreams as though they are happening in the here and now
• Reveals missing parts and methods of avoidance
• It is the road to integration

Question 12

Resistances to contact

Answer 12

Defenses to prevent experiencing the present

• integration
• projection
• retroflection
• deflection
• confluence

Question 13

Exaggeration Exercise

Answer 13

• exaggerate movements nad jestures repeatedly to intensify emotion and make inner meaning clear
• increase awareness of subtle clues and signals

Question 14

Making the rounds

Answer 14

Group exercise where the person speaks / does something to each member of the group

Designed to confront, risk, experiment with new behaviours, grow and change

Question 15

Empty Chair / internal Dialogue Exercise

Answer 15

Client plays out both roles to better integrate polarities of personality that have been disowned or denied

Question 16

Rehearsal Exercise

Answer 16

Sharing the internal rehearsal aloud to increase awareness of how client:

• meets expectations
• need to approval

Question 17

Staying with the feeling

Answer 17

Response to unpleasant feelings in order to confront, unblock and have new growth.

Question 18

Reversal technique

Answer 18

Asking client to do something they’ve never done before or that is completely out of character.

Clients connect with anxiety and make contact with other parts of self

Question 19

Field Theory

Answer 19

attention to exploring what occurs at the boundary of person and the environment.

Question 20

What is gestalt therapy

Answer 20

• person centered
• focuses on present
• taking responsibility rather than placing blame
• therapist holds space for clients to share their truth
• improve self-awareness