Deck 9: Gestalt Therapy

Question 1

Which mentor taught Perls to view people as a whole and not just a sum of their parts?

A) Karen Horney
B) Kurt Goldstein
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Willhem Reich

Answer 1

B

Question 2

If people are engaged in organismic self-regulation in a healthy way, then they are not aware of their shifting needs.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Gestalt therapy was originally called concentration therapy.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following is not an aspect of Gestalt awareness?

A) Understanding the perceptions of others
B) Self-knowledge
C) Self-acceptances
D) Taking responsibility for one's actions

Question 5

Unfinished business is past experiences that impact the present.

Question 6

Gestalt therapy is a phenomenological approach.

Question 7

Which factor was NOT one that Perls considered to make up the bulk of unfinished business?

A) Anger
B) Loss of a loved object
C) Grief
D) Fear

Question 8

An "I-Thou" relationship between therapist and client means that__________.

A) The therapist has most of the power in the relationship.
B) The client has most of the power in the relationship.
C) The therapist and client should have authentic communication with each other.
D) The therapist must keep the client focused on the present.

Question 9

What happens if people are unable to work through an impasse?

A) They repeat the same maladaptive behavior.
B) They develop a neurosis.
C) They are unable to make contact with significant others.
D) Nothing, most people cannot work through an impasse.

Question 10

Roger knows that he is unhappy but instead of dealing with his feelings due to fear, he buries himself in his work. According to Gestalt therapists, Roger would be said to be in _______________.

A) The phony layer
B) The explosive layer
C) The phobic layer
D) Impasse

Question 11

Which of the following ideas did Gestalt therapy adopt from existentialism?

A) Individuals must take responsibility for their own lives.
B) Our pasts have a great impact on our present.
C) People need contact
D) Humans by nature are good

Question 12

Gestalt therapists believe that the most important information about an individual lies in their unconscious.

Question 13

Maria's therapist asks her to "talk" with a frightening ghost figure that has repeatedly been her dreams. Maria is engaging in__________________.

A) Contact
B) Internal dialogue
C) Unfinished business
D) Imaginal dialogue

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT true of Gestalt therapy?

A) It is designed for people who want to know the role that they play in their own unhappiness.
B) The therapist may be inauthentic if it is believed that the client is not ready to embrace reality.
C) Encourages clients to take full responsibility for their behavior.
D) It helps clients differentiate between "I can't" and "I won't."

Question 15

Which of the following is a rule that Gestalt therapists might use to get a client to be aware of what is now?

A) Ignore any discussion of the past
B) Ask clients why they continue to discuss the past.
C) Always use the present tense
D) Assign homework that focuses on the present.

Question 16

Perls' saying "lose your mind and come to your senses" is in reference to what Gestalt principle?

A) Recovery from anxiety
B) Unfinished business
C) Meaning making
D) Being aware of the here and now

Question 17

Before he developed Gestalt therapy, Perls had the most experience with which therapy model?

A) Adlerian
B) Behavioralism
C) Psychoanalysis
D) Reality theory

Question 18

Sarah has accepted her mother's view about ways in which someone lives a health life without analyzing or considering these topics herself. Sarah is practicing_______________.

A) Projection
B) Introjection
C) Retroflection
D) Deflection

Question 19

What is the purpose of the safe emergency in Gestalt therapy?

A) To help the client become more self-reliant
B) To free the client from boundary problems
C) To build an authentic dialogue
D) To disrupt the relationship between the therapist and client

Question 20

When a child is able to differentiate self from surroundings, he or she has developed a(n)_____________.

A) Ego boundary
B) Autonomy boundary
C) Contact boundary
D) Self boundary

Question 21

Name three of the criticisms of Gestalt therapy.

Question 22

Name two multicultural positives of Gestalt therapy.

Question 23

Describe characteristics and functioning of an individual who is experiencing psychopathology for the Gestalt therapy perspective.

Question 24

According to Perls, frustration is a significant part of developing the self.

Question 25

Gestalt counselors are inclined to use certain rules in helping clients become more aware of the now. Name three of these rules.

Question 26

Explain the "making the rounds" technique.

Question 27

Polster (1987) has presented a three-stage integration sequence that characterizes clients' growth in therapy. What are they?

Question 28

Gestalt therapists believe that most people who attend therapy want to change their behavior.

Question 29

Gestalt therapists are encouraged to share personal information if it will be therapeutic to clients.

Question 30

What are the multicultural blind spots of Gestalt therapy?

Question 31

Perls described maladaptive behavior in terms of five layers of neuroses. To become psychologically mature, we must peel off each of the five layers. What are these five layers?

Question 32

The word Gestalt does not have an equivalent English translation.

Question 33

Gestalt therapy emphasizes four types of dialogue within the therapeutic relationship. What are these?

Question 34

Name and define the three critical concepts of Gestalt psychology put forth by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka.

Question 35

Describe unfinished business and how it can impact an individual.

Question 36

Exercises are Gestalt techniques designed to bring about certain emotions in clients.

Question 37

What is confluence?

Question 38

Give an example of introjection.

Question 39

Name five Gestalt therapy techniques.

Question 40

What are two strengths of Gestalt therapy?