Gestalt Therapy

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Gestalt Therapy
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Questions?

• What key concepts do you know in terms of Gestalt
  therapy?

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View of Human Nature people are

• self-reliant
• Spontaneous
• capable of _____________________
• able to reintegrate__________________
• striving toward____________________

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The present (here and now)

• _____________ rather than______________
• Becoming___________________rather than
  talking__________________.
• Ask____________instead of____________
• The power is____________
• However, many people focus on _________ and
  engage in__________________

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Unfinished Business (UB)

• Definition Feelings about______are________
• May feel__________________
• May be________________________
• Interfere with_________________
• Tend to result in________________
• By working through unfinished business, the
  preoccupation with______________________.

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Contact Resistance to contact

• CONTACT interaction with nature and other
  people without _____________________
• Contact is necessary for________________
• RESISTANCE TO CONTACT the defenses that prevent
  us from___________________
• Clients are encouraged to become increasingly
  aware of their dominant style of__________________

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Contact Boundary Disturbances

• Clients are encouraged to become increasingly
  aware of their dominant style of blocking contact
• Introjection uncritically accept others
  view____________
• Projection disown certain aspect of ourselves
  by_________________
• Retroflection doing to ourselves
  ___________________

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Energy and blocks to energy

• Attend to where _______, how _______, and how
  _______________
• Blocked energy is a form of _________
• Recognize how their resistance ____________
• Exaggerate their _________ in order to
  increase__________

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Therapeutic Goals helping clients

• to enhance ______________
• to depend on_____________
• to bring the past or future into____________
• to achieve integration of _______________

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Therapists function and Role

• Increase clients___________
• Attend to the_________________
• Attend to __________________________
• Help clients to experience ________________
• Make_____statement

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The Therapeutic Relationship

• ____________________ is important for the therapy
  to be effective
• Be empathetic, genuine, and understanding
• Share therapists experiences to clients in
  _______________
• Apply the notion of ______________in therapy

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Therapeutic Change

• Not making progress is due to ____________
  (Perls, 1969)
• Exploring the __________
• The Change Process three-stage (Polster, 1987)
• Discovery (___________________)
• Accommodation (____________________)
• Assimilation (_____________________)

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Therapeutic techniques and procedures

• The experiential work
• Use experiential work in therapy to work
  through___________and gain_________
• Preparing client for experiential work
• Obtain permission from__________
• Be sensitive to________________
• Respect______________

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Therapeutic techniques and procedures

• The internal dialogue exercise
• Top dog (__________) and underdog (_______)
• Empty-chair (____________________)
• Making the rounds
• Go around to _______ and say __________
• Reversal exercise
• Reverse the ______style (e.g., ____________)

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Therapeutic techniques and procedures

• Rehearsal exercise
• Share______________________with a therapist
• Exaggeration exercise
• Exaggerate _________________, which usually
  intensifies the feelings attached to the behavior
• Staying with the feeling
• Go deeper into the feelings they ______________

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Therapeutic techniques and procedures

• The Gestalt approach to dream work
• Do not __________________ dreams
• Bring dream back to ___________ as though they
  are happening now
• __________________ in the dream represents a
  ___________aspect of the dreamer
• Dreams serve as an excellent way to discover
  ___________
• Not remembering?_____________ what it is at that
  time

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Research on Gestalt Therapy

• Compare with _____________________, Gestalt
  therapy is___________
• In general, results are similar among Gestalt
  therapy, ____________, or _________.
• Leslie Greenberg and colleagues conducted a
  series of research on __________________
• Across studies, the empty chair technique is
  helpful by reducing _______ and increasing
  __________.

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From a multicultural perspective

• Contributions
• Work with clients from __________________
• Limitations
• Focus on affect may not be appropriate
• Asians value _________________
• Direct expression of the negative feelings to
  __________ is not appropriate.

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Summary and Evaluation--contribution

• Enhance ______________
• Attend to ________________cues
• _______________rather than talking about it
• Focus on _______________________
• See each aspect of a dream as __________

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Summary and Evaluation-limitation

• Limitations
• Ineffective therapists may manipulate the clients
  with powerful experiential work
• Some people may need psycho-education