LESSON 8 GESTALT APPROACH

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view of human nature is that people are self-determined, the strike for self-actualization, and are best understood from a phenomenological perspective.

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Gestalt Approach and theory

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5 Key Elements

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Phenomenological
Existential
Experiential
Awareness
Now

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Sources of Dilemma

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Energy and Energy Blocks
Unfinished Business
Resistance to Contact

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seeking focus on the client’s perception of reality

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Phenomenological

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the people are to take responsibility for their destiny and identity

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Existential

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the client is being asked to come to understand what and how their thinking

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Experiential

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helping the client to come to their awareness

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Awareness

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the only moment that is significant in the present

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Now

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form of defensive behavior thus special attention to energy

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Blocked Energy

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figures the emerge from the background but not completed or unresolved

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Unfinished Business

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refers to our senses and effective contact means interacting with nature

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Contact

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is typically adopted out of awareness and may function in a chronic way which may result in dysfunctional behavior

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Resistance

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Tendency to uncritically accept others’ beliefs and standards without assimilating them to make them congruent with who we are.

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Introjection

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Disowning certain aspects of ourselves by assigning them to the environment. Primarily, attributes that are inconsistent with our self-image are disowned are assigned to, and seen in other people.

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Projection

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Turning back onto ourselves what we would like to do to someone else or doing to ourselves what we would like someone else to do for us.

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Retroreflection

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Process of distraction or veering off, so that it is difficult to maintain a sustained sense of contact.

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Deflection

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Blurring differentiation between the self and the environment. Striving to blend in and to get along with everyone to the point that there is no clear demarcation between internal experience and outer reality.

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Confluence

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The Role of the Counselor

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Invite the client into an active partnership where they can learn about themselves by adopting an experimental attitude toward life in which they can try out new behaviors and notice what happens.

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to increase the client’s awareness of what he or she is doing, experiencing, and how he or she is doing it.

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Experiments

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Help individuals to experience different feelings and emotions and better understand how they present and organize themselves

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Role-Playing

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Client are invited to examine their behaviors, attitudes and thoughts. Clients are encouraged to look at incongruities especially gaps between their verbal and non-verbal expression

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Confrontation

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Rooted in the mechanism of introjection, this approach can be used to help clients work through conflicting parts of their personality, such as in an approach-avoidance conflict. Clients are to externalize the introject.

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Empty Chair Technique

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Sharing our internal rehearsals out loud with a therapist so that they can become more aware of the many preparatory means they use in bolstering their social roles.

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Rehearsal

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Clients take the plunge into everything that is fraught with anxiety and make contact with parts of themselves that have been submerged and denied.

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Reversal

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Client is urged to stay with their feelings and encourage them to go deeper into the feeling or behavior they wish to avoid.

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Staying with the Feeling

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Involves asking a person in a group to go up to others in the group and either speak to or do something with each person.

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Making Rounds