Gestalt Therapy Flashcards
Counselor’s function
Confront and frustrate client’s escape from responsibility
Gestalt view on humans
Manipulative, avoid self reliance
Two personal agendas on counseling style
Move client to self-support
Reintegrate disowned parts of personality
Counselor has no agenda because
Experiment and contact that are spontaneous and organic to m2m experience of therap relationship
Roots of GT
Existential
Phenom
Field theory
Becoming aware helps make the client
Make informed choices
Make a meaningful life
Basic assumpt of Gestalt counseling
Indivs have the capacity to self-regulate
Gestalt theory of change
Th more we attempt to be who we are not, the more we stay the same
Change is
Becoming aware of what we are
GT of change means that clients should avoid striving to become
What should be.
Be as fully as possible in current condition
Role of counselor is not change agent but
Assist client to self-awareness
Holism
Sum greater than parts
No superior value on particular aspect
We can only be understood when we consider
All dimensions of human functioning
Field theory is
Ognsm must be seen in ever-changing environment
Gestalt (on field theory) says that everything is
Relational, interrelated, in process, in flux
FT pay attention to what is happening in
Boundary of person and env
What is figure formation process
How to organize env from m2m
Organismic self regulation is
Process where equil is disturbed by emergence of need, sensation, interest
4 principles of GC
Field theory
Organismic self reg
Figure formation process
Holism
To make contact with present moment GT asks
What and how
Past will make regular appearance at present because
Lack of completion of past xp
Manifested in unexpressed feels
Unfinished business
Why UB linger in background
Feels are not fully experienced in awareness
Effects of UB lingering in BG
Interfere with effective contact with self and others
UB persists until
Individual faces and deals with unexpressed feels
Unexpressed feels tend to become
Physical symptoms
What is impasse or stuck point
Situation unable to support self, so seeks external support
Getting through impasse will make what possible
growth
Actualization and growth only happens when
Accept all aspects of self wo judgments
Think feel behave difft
Five layers of neurosis
Phony Phobic Impasse Implosive Explosive
Phony
React in stereotypical and inauthentic ways
Play games get lost in roles
Effect of shedding phony layer
Unpleasantness pain
Phobic layer
Avoid emotional pain assoc with being aware of aspects we want to deny
Impasse
Stuck in own maturation
We feel this at impasse
Dead and nothing
Implosive
Experience deadness than denying it
Effect of implosive
Lower defenses, feel genuine self
Explosive layer
Release huge amt of energy weve been holding to by pretending who we aint
To become alive and authentic it is necessary to
Achieve explosion into pain and joy
Good contact prereq
Clear awareness
Full energy
Ability to express self
Blindly accept to make it congruent to who we are
Introjection
Disown aspects of self by assigning it to env
Projection
Retroflection consists of turning what to ourselves
What we want to do to others
What we want oths to do to us
Process of distraction so less contact made
Deflection
Blurring diff bet self and env
Confluence
Not expressing own feelings to stay safe
Confluence
Attempt to control env by
Resistance to contact
Rsistance being expressed in body by
Energy blocks
Basic goal
Attain awareness and greater choices
Awareness includes
Knowing env, self
Accept self
Make contact
After GT, clients will
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
Counselors invite client to what relationship
Experimental
Experimental bc
Encourage awareness of now
Clients more likely to try new things
GTst work in context of
I/thou dialogue in h&n
Using It and You instead of I
Depersonalizing language
Questions tend to keep the client
Hidden, safe, unknown
Less questions can help increase
Assuming of responsibility of what they say
Putting disclaimers on sentences
Denies personal power
What to do wit metaphors
Translate into manifest content so they can he dealt with
What makes a client participate acticely
Bc goal is to increase awareness on H&N
They make own interpretations and meanings
Integration sequence for client growth
Discovery
Accommodation
Assimilation
Very iMP FOR COUNSELOR
I/thou rel
Quality of counselor’s presence
Experiment is a way to
Bring out internal conflict by making it an ACTUAL process
When hesitation is met
Explore its meaning for client
Essential ingredient for effective confrontaion
Respect for client
Internal dialogue exercise brings out
Integrated functioning
Acceptance of disowned aspects of personality
Topdogs and underdogs for
Internal dialogue exercise
A way of getting the client to externalize the introject
Empty chair technique
Help client to accept certain personal attributes they try to deny
Reversal technique
Awareness on what they do to please others
Rehearsal exercise
Reason for exagg exercise
Intensifies feels to make inner meaning clearer
