FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GESTALT

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GESTALT

THERAPY EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Gestalt Therapy founder

Answer:

Frederick Perls

Question 2: Using "I" Language

Answer:

Clients are asked to begin sentences with "I". This is done to help them assume responsibility for their actions.

Question 3: Retroflection

Answer:

Involves doing to oneself what one wants to do to others.

Question 4: Personality Theory

Answer:

Consisting of two parts, the self and the self-image.

Question 5: Concepts (4-5)

Answer:

4) behavior can only be fully understood in context; and 5) a person experiences the world in accord with the principle of figure and ground.

Question 6: Games of Dialogue

Answer:

Use role-playing (psychodrama) to help clients express their feelings directly. (Empty-chair technique)

Question 7: No Questions

Answer:

Clients are discouraged from asking questions because questions are thought to foster intellectualizing and mask true feelings.

Question 8: Assuming Responsibility

Answer:

Clients are asked to add the phrase "...and I take responsibility for it" to the statemtns they make to increase their sense of responsibility for their own thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Question 9: Self

Answer:

Is the creative aspect of the personality which promotes the individual's inherent tendency for self-actualization.

Question 10: Transference

Answer:

Counterproductive - they respond to a client's transference by helping the client recognize the difference between his/her transference fantasy and reality

Question 11: Projection

Answer:

Involves making someone or something in the environment responsible for what originates in oneself.

Question 12: Therapeutic Tecniques

Answer:

Focuses on the immediate present awareness of one's experiences.

Question 13: Dream Work

Answer:

View the elements of recurring dreams as representations of parts of the self not fully accepted.

Question 14: Self-actualization

Answer:

The ability to bring the self from "potency to act," or to live as a fully integrated person.

Question 15: Confluence

Answer:

Refers to the absence of a boundary between the self and environment.

Question 16: Gestalt Therapy

Answer:

Is based on the assumption that each individual is capable of assuming personal responsibility and living fully as an integrated person.

Question 17: Directed Awareness

Answer:

Use simple, direct questions to encourage clients to stay in the here-and-now.

Question 18: Awareness

Answer:

A full understanding of one's here-and-now thoughts, feelings, actions, and sensations.

Question 19: Concepts (1-3)

Answer:

1) people tend to seek closure; 2) a person's "gestalts" reflects his/her current needs; 3) a person's behavior represents a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts;

Question 20: View of Maladaptive Behavior

Answer:

A "growth disorder" which involves an abandonment of the self for the self-image. The result of one or more "boundary disturbances," which all reflect identification with the self-image.

Question 21: Self-image

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The "darker side" of the personality. It hinders growth and self-actualization by imposing external standards.

Question 22: Introjection

Answer:

Occurs when a person psychologically swallows whole concepts (i.e., when the person accepts concepts, facts, and standards from the environment without understanding or fully assimilating them.

Question 23: Therapeutic Goals

Answer:

Is to help a client achieve maturity (self-responsibility and self-support) and integration (the ability to function as a systematic whole).

Question 24: Therapeutic Techniques (6)

Answer:

Directed awareness; Using "I" language; No questions; Games of dialogue; Assuming responsibility; Dream work