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Gestalt Therapy Goal - ANSWERto provide a context that enables members to
increase their awareness of what they are experiencing and the quality of the
contact they are making with others. Moment-to-moment awareness of one's
experiencing, together with the almost immediate awareness of one's blocks to such
experiencing, is seen as therapeutic in and of itself (pp. 292).
Basic goal of Gestalt therapy is increased awareness, which in and of itself is seen as
curative or growth producing
Gestalt Therapy - ANSWERExistential-phenomenological approach based on the
premise that individuals must be understood in the context of their ongoing
relationship with the environment. Group members are able to come to grips with
what and how they are thinking, feeling, and doing as they interact with others in
the group
Encourages clients to accept responsibility for who they are and for what they are
doing and to learn to distinguish perceiving, feeling, and acting from other
intellectual functions and attitudes.
Affirms the human capacity for growth and healing through interpersonal contact
and awareness. This approach is phenomenological in that it emphasizes how we see
the world, how we contribute to creating our experience, and how we organize our
world and ourselves.
Contemporary Gestalt Therapy - ANSWERcalled relational Gestalt therapy, includes
more support and increased kindness and compassion in therapy
Gestalt therapy- holism: - ANSWERThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Gestalt practice attends to a client's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, and dreams
as they become figural or move into the foreground for clients. We can only be
understood if we take into consideration all dimensions of human functioning
Gestalt group therapy: Awareness: - ANSWERrequires self-knowledge, responsibility
for choices, contact with the environment, immersion in current experience, self
acceptance, and the ability to make contact
Gestalt group therapy: the here and now - ANSWERimportant of members being
able to appreciate the present- present centeredness to increase awareness and
bring about change
,Gestalt group therapy: Unfinished Business: - ANSWERIncludes unexpressed feelings
—such as resentment, hate, rage, pain, hurt, anxiety, guilt, shame, and grief—and
events and memories that linger in the background and clamor for completion.
Unless these unfinished situations and unexpressed emotions become figural and
are dealt with, they will interfere with present-centered awareness and with our
effective functioning (p. 298)
Gestalt group therapy: contact: - ANSWERis made by seeing, hearing, smelling,
touching, and moving.
Types of contact in gestalt group therapy: introjection, projection, retroflection,
deflection, confluence
Introjection - ANSWERinvolves the tendency to accept others' beliefs and standards
uncritically without assimilating them and making them congruent with who we are.
Projection - ANSWERdisowning certain aspects of ourselves by ascribing them to the
environment. (bases of transference)
Retroflection - ANSWERThe act of turning back onto ourselves something we would
like to do (or have done) to someone else.
Deflection - ANSWERInterruption of awareness so that it is difficult to maintain a
sense of contact. Example: overuse of humor or questions instead of statements
Confluence - ANSWERBlurring awareness between self and environment. Style of
contact that is characteristic of group members who have a high need to be
accepted and liked; they will have difficulty having their own thoughts or speaking
for themselves
Gestalt: Past - ANSWERTo live more fully in the present, clients need to identify and
deal with anything from the past that interfere with current functioning. By re-
experiencing past conflicts as if they were occurring in the present, clients expand
their level of awareness and are able to integrate denied and fragmented parts of
themselves, thus becoming unified and whole.
Participants bring past problem situations into the present by reenacting the
situation as if it were occurring now.
Gestalt: Dreams - ANSWERGestalt therapy does NOT interpret and analyze dreams
(pg. 314-315). The intent is to bring the dream back to life, to recreate it, and to
relive it as if it were happening now. Group members are asked to tell the dream as
if it were happening in the present, identify with a segment of the dream and
narrate their dream from a subjective perspective.
, Advantages of this approach is increasing group cohesion, great potential for dealing
with unfinished business with other group members and linking one member's work
with others (pg. 316).
Gestalt: Experiments - ANSWERIn Gestalt group experiments, members are invited
to try out some new behavior (behavior modeling) and to pay attention to what they
experience
a group experiment is a creative happening that grows out of the group experience;
as such it cannot be predetermined, and its outcome cannot be predicted
"Experiments emerge organically and seamlessly in the moment-to-moment contact
between a counselor and a client, and they are discovered within that dialogic
process"
Examples include: dramatizing a painful memory, imagining a dreaded encounter,
playing one's parent, creating a dialogue between two parts within oneself,
attending to an overlooked gesture, or exaggerating a certain posture.
Empty Chair Technique
Group leaders do not interpret dreams but assist in active self exploration
Gestalt: Present - ANSWEREmphasis on learning to appreciate and fully experience
the present. The past is gone, and the future has not yet arrived, whereas the
present moment is lively and exciting.
Person-Centered Approach: Self-Actualization - ANSWERTendency for a person to
reach their fullest potential through self-discovery and personal growth.
Person-Centered Approach: Positive Regard - ANSWERThis is a person's need for
appreciation, love, respect, etc. from another person. There are two types of positive
regard:
1. Unconditional positive regard is receiving positive responses from people no
matter the action, behavior, etc.
2.Conditional positive regard is the reinforcement of certain actions, behaviors, etc.
over others. A result of conditional positive regard is condition of worth. This is when
a person feels worthy only if they meet certain conditions.
Person-Centered Approach: Congruence - ANSWERThe agreement between a
person's self-concept (the way they see themselves), their real self (who they really
are), and their ideal self (the way they would like to be). The more those three views
agree, the more congruence a person has.
Person-Centered Approach: Empathetic Understanding - ANSWERThis is the
therapists ability to see the clients world as his or her own. Empathetic
understanding can be achieved through clarification and reflection.
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Psychiatric Mental Health Diagnosis and Management
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Answers)- Maryville
Gestalt Therapy Goal - ANSWERto provide a context that enables members to
increase their awareness of what they are experiencing and the quality of the
contact they are making with others. Moment-to-moment awareness of one's
experiencing, together with the almost immediate awareness of one's blocks to such
experiencing, is seen as therapeutic in and of itself (pp. 292).
Basic goal of Gestalt therapy is increased awareness, which in and of itself is seen as
curative or growth producing
Gestalt Therapy - ANSWERExistential-phenomenological approach based on the
premise that individuals must be understood in the context of their ongoing
relationship with the environment. Group members are able to come to grips with
what and how they are thinking, feeling, and doing as they interact with others in
the group
Encourages clients to accept responsibility for who they are and for what they are
doing and to learn to distinguish perceiving, feeling, and acting from other
intellectual functions and attitudes.
Affirms the human capacity for growth and healing through interpersonal contact
and awareness. This approach is phenomenological in that it emphasizes how we see
the world, how we contribute to creating our experience, and how we organize our
world and ourselves.
Contemporary Gestalt Therapy - ANSWERcalled relational Gestalt therapy, includes
more support and increased kindness and compassion in therapy
Gestalt therapy- holism: - ANSWERThe whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Gestalt practice attends to a client's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, and dreams
as they become figural or move into the foreground for clients. We can only be
understood if we take into consideration all dimensions of human functioning
Gestalt group therapy: Awareness: - ANSWERrequires self-knowledge, responsibility
for choices, contact with the environment, immersion in current experience, self
acceptance, and the ability to make contact
Gestalt group therapy: the here and now - ANSWERimportant of members being
able to appreciate the present- present centeredness to increase awareness and
bring about change
,Gestalt group therapy: Unfinished Business: - ANSWERIncludes unexpressed feelings
—such as resentment, hate, rage, pain, hurt, anxiety, guilt, shame, and grief—and
events and memories that linger in the background and clamor for completion.
Unless these unfinished situations and unexpressed emotions become figural and
are dealt with, they will interfere with present-centered awareness and with our
effective functioning (p. 298)
Gestalt group therapy: contact: - ANSWERis made by seeing, hearing, smelling,
touching, and moving.
Types of contact in gestalt group therapy: introjection, projection, retroflection,
deflection, confluence
Introjection - ANSWERinvolves the tendency to accept others' beliefs and standards
uncritically without assimilating them and making them congruent with who we are.
Projection - ANSWERdisowning certain aspects of ourselves by ascribing them to the
environment. (bases of transference)
Retroflection - ANSWERThe act of turning back onto ourselves something we would
like to do (or have done) to someone else.
Deflection - ANSWERInterruption of awareness so that it is difficult to maintain a
sense of contact. Example: overuse of humor or questions instead of statements
Confluence - ANSWERBlurring awareness between self and environment. Style of
contact that is characteristic of group members who have a high need to be
accepted and liked; they will have difficulty having their own thoughts or speaking
for themselves
Gestalt: Past - ANSWERTo live more fully in the present, clients need to identify and
deal with anything from the past that interfere with current functioning. By re-
experiencing past conflicts as if they were occurring in the present, clients expand
their level of awareness and are able to integrate denied and fragmented parts of
themselves, thus becoming unified and whole.
Participants bring past problem situations into the present by reenacting the
situation as if it were occurring now.
Gestalt: Dreams - ANSWERGestalt therapy does NOT interpret and analyze dreams
(pg. 314-315). The intent is to bring the dream back to life, to recreate it, and to
relive it as if it were happening now. Group members are asked to tell the dream as
if it were happening in the present, identify with a segment of the dream and
narrate their dream from a subjective perspective.
, Advantages of this approach is increasing group cohesion, great potential for dealing
with unfinished business with other group members and linking one member's work
with others (pg. 316).
Gestalt: Experiments - ANSWERIn Gestalt group experiments, members are invited
to try out some new behavior (behavior modeling) and to pay attention to what they
experience
a group experiment is a creative happening that grows out of the group experience;
as such it cannot be predetermined, and its outcome cannot be predicted
"Experiments emerge organically and seamlessly in the moment-to-moment contact
between a counselor and a client, and they are discovered within that dialogic
process"
Examples include: dramatizing a painful memory, imagining a dreaded encounter,
playing one's parent, creating a dialogue between two parts within oneself,
attending to an overlooked gesture, or exaggerating a certain posture.
Empty Chair Technique
Group leaders do not interpret dreams but assist in active self exploration
Gestalt: Present - ANSWEREmphasis on learning to appreciate and fully experience
the present. The past is gone, and the future has not yet arrived, whereas the
present moment is lively and exciting.
Person-Centered Approach: Self-Actualization - ANSWERTendency for a person to
reach their fullest potential through self-discovery and personal growth.
Person-Centered Approach: Positive Regard - ANSWERThis is a person's need for
appreciation, love, respect, etc. from another person. There are two types of positive
regard:
1. Unconditional positive regard is receiving positive responses from people no
matter the action, behavior, etc.
2.Conditional positive regard is the reinforcement of certain actions, behaviors, etc.
over others. A result of conditional positive regard is condition of worth. This is when
a person feels worthy only if they meet certain conditions.
Person-Centered Approach: Congruence - ANSWERThe agreement between a
person's self-concept (the way they see themselves), their real self (who they really
are), and their ideal self (the way they would like to be). The more those three views
agree, the more congruence a person has.
Person-Centered Approach: Empathetic Understanding - ANSWERThis is the
therapists ability to see the clients world as his or her own. Empathetic
understanding can be achieved through clarification and reflection.
