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Gestalt Theory Flashcards

1
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Answer:

who founded Gestalt theory

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Fritz Perls

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what are the cornerstones of gestalt theories

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  • awareness
  • choice
  • responsiblity
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what is a goal of the client in gestalt theory

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expand awareness of their experience in the present moment

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define

phenomenological

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focus on client’s perception of reality and existential, people in process of becoming, remaking and rediscovering themselves.

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what is the focus on during therapy

gestalt

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focus here and now, what and how of experience
authenticity of therapist
active dialogic inquiry and exploration

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what is the role of the therapist in gestalt therapy

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  • put themselves in experience w/o analyzing or interpreting
  • want clients to gain awareness of where they are going and how they are doing it moment to moment
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describe

contemporary relational gestalt therapy

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  • stresses dialogue and I/thou relationship between client and therapist
  • work with clients in search of understanding
  • emphasize support, acceptance, empathy, respect and dialogue as well as confrontation
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how does growth occur during gestalt therapy

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genuine contact between client and therapist

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list

things pearls did during therapy

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  • move client from environmental support to self support/ reintegrating disowned parts of one’s personality
  • ask clients to invest themselves fully in current conditon
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define

holistic

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interested in whole person; attend to client’s thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body. memories, and dreams

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explain

field theory

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client must be seen in their enviornment and explore what occurs between person and environment
* attending to the obvious

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define:

attending to the obvious

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paying attention to how the parts fit together and how individual makes contact with environment

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define

figure formation process

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tracks how individual organizes experience from moment to moment as some aspect of environmental field emerges from background and becomes focal point of individuals attention and interest

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what is the tag line of Gestalt theory

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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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list

contact boundary disturbances

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  • introjection
  • projection
  • retroflection
  • deflection
  • confluence
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why does the client ask what and how questions as opposed to why

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to aid in staying in the present

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List

ways gestalt therapies uses “the now”

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  • power in the present
  • what and how questions
  • bring client to the present if they try to speak about past
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Answer:

how might a gestalt therapist deal with a client talking about their past?

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they might ask them to reenact the past as if they are living it now

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Explain:

unfinished business in relation to gestalt therapy

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  • unresoved feelings persist until you deal with the unexpressed feelings.
  • therapist emphasize pays attention to bodily experience as unexpressed feeling result in physical sensations or problems.
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List

through gestalt process clients will

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  • move toward increased awareness
  • assume ownership of experiences
  • develop skills/values allow them to satisfy own needs
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list

therapist function in gestalt therapy

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  • use active methods and personal engagement, not directing
  • functions as a guide; may share observations
  • climate where clients can try new bx
  • i/thou dialogue and the here and now
  • body language is important therapist calls attention to it
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explain:

clients behavior in gestalt therapy

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  • clients are active participants who make their own interpretations and meanings
  • decide what to do with their personal meaning
  • accommodation
  • assimilation
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define

accommodation in relation to gestalt therapy

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  • making new choices
  • trying new behaviors
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define

assimilation in relation to gestalt therapy

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  • clients learn how to influence their environment
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what does the therapist/client relationship look like in gestalt therapy

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  • therapist allows client to be who they are
  • creating a relationship is at the heart of gestalt therapy
26
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define

experiments in relation to gestalt therapy

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  • intervention and active technique that facilitates collaborative exploration of a clients experience.
  • learn by doing
  • aimed at facilitating a clients ability to work through stuck points of life
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define

confrontation in relation to gestalt therapy

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dialogue centered, includes support and kindness

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list

interventions

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  • internal dialogue technique
  • empty chair technique
  • future projection
  • stay with feeling

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