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Gestalt Therapy Flashcards

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Counselor’s function

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Confront and frustrate client’s escape from responsibility

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Gestalt view on humans

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Manipulative, avoid self reliance

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Two personal agendas on counseling style

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Move client to self-support

Reintegrate disowned parts of personality

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Counselor has no agenda because

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Experiment and contact that are spontaneous and organic to m2m experience of therap relationship

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Roots of GT

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Existential
Phenom
Field theory

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Becoming aware helps make the client

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Make informed choices

Make a meaningful life

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Basic assumpt of Gestalt counseling

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Indivs have the capacity to self-regulate

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Gestalt theory of change

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Th more we attempt to be who we are not, the more we stay the same

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Change is

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Becoming aware of what we are

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GT of change means that clients should avoid striving to become

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What should be.

Be as fully as possible in current condition

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Role of counselor is not change agent but

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Assist client to self-awareness

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Holism

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Sum greater than parts

No superior value on particular aspect

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We can only be understood when we consider

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All dimensions of human functioning

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Field theory is

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Ognsm must be seen in ever-changing environment

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Gestalt (on field theory) says that everything is

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Relational, interrelated, in process, in flux

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FT pay attention to what is happening in

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Boundary of person and env

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What is figure formation process

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How to organize env from m2m

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Organismic self regulation is

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Process where equil is disturbed by emergence of need, sensation, interest

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4 principles of GC

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Field theory
Organismic self reg
Figure formation process
Holism

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To make contact with present moment GT asks

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What and how

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Past will make regular appearance at present because

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Lack of completion of past xp

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Manifested in unexpressed feels

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Unfinished business

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Why UB linger in background

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Feels are not fully experienced in awareness

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Effects of UB lingering in BG

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Interfere with effective contact with self and others

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UB persists until

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Individual faces and deals with unexpressed feels

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Unexpressed feels tend to become

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Physical symptoms

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What is impasse or stuck point

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Situation unable to support self, so seeks external support

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Getting through impasse will make what possible

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growth

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Actualization and growth only happens when

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Accept all aspects of self wo judgments

Think feel behave difft

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Five layers of neurosis

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Phony
Phobic
Impasse
Implosive
Explosive
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Phony

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React in stereotypical and inauthentic ways

Play games get lost in roles

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Effect of shedding phony layer

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Unpleasantness pain

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Phobic layer

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Avoid emotional pain assoc with being aware of aspects we want to deny

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Impasse

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Stuck in own maturation

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We feel this at impasse

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Dead and nothing

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Implosive

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Experience deadness than denying it

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Effect of implosive

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Lower defenses, feel genuine self

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Explosive layer

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Release huge amt of energy weve been holding to by pretending who we aint

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To become alive and authentic it is necessary to

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Achieve explosion into pain and joy

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Good contact prereq

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Clear awareness
Full energy
Ability to express self

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Blindly accept to make it congruent to who we are

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Introjection

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Disown aspects of self by assigning it to env

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Projection

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Retroflection consists of turning what to ourselves

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What we want to do to others

What we want oths to do to us

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Process of distraction so less contact made

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Deflection

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Blurring diff bet self and env

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Confluence

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Not expressing own feelings to stay safe

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Confluence

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Attempt to control env by

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Resistance to contact

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Rsistance being expressed in body by

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Energy blocks

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Basic goal

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Attain awareness and greater choices

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Awareness includes

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Knowing env, self
Accept self
Make contact

50
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After GT, clients will

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Increased awareness of self, senses
Assume ownership of exp, learn conseq, be responsible of it
Skills and values to get what they want wo harming oth
Increased internal supp, but be able to ask and help

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Counselors invite client to what relationship

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Experimental

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Experimental bc

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Encourage awareness of now

Clients more likely to try new things

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GTst work in context of

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I/thou dialogue in h&n

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Using It and You instead of I

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Depersonalizing language

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Questions tend to keep the client

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Hidden, safe, unknown

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Less questions can help increase

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Assuming of responsibility of what they say

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Putting disclaimers on sentences

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Denies personal power

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What to do wit metaphors

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Translate into manifest content so they can he dealt with

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What makes a client participate acticely

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Bc goal is to increase awareness on H&N

They make own interpretations and meanings

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Integration sequence for client growth

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Discovery
Accommodation
Assimilation

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Very iMP FOR COUNSELOR

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I/thou rel

Quality of counselor’s presence

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Experiment is a way to

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Bring out internal conflict by making it an ACTUAL process

63
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When hesitation is met

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Explore its meaning for client

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Essential ingredient for effective confrontaion

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Respect for client

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Internal dialogue exercise brings out

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Integrated functioning

Acceptance of disowned aspects of personality

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Topdogs and underdogs for

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Internal dialogue exercise

67
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A way of getting the client to externalize the introject

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Empty chair technique

68
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Help client to accept certain personal attributes they try to deny

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Reversal technique

69
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Awareness on what they do to please others

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Rehearsal exercise

70
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Reason for exagg exercise

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Intensifies feels to make inner meaning clearer

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