Gestalt Therapy

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

View of Human Nature: people are self-reliant Spontaneous capable of _____________________ able to reintegrate__________________ striving toward____________________

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__________________

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______________________.

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__________________

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 ___________________

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__________

Therapeutic Goals: helping clients to enhance ______________ to depend on_____________ to bring the past or future into____________ to achieve integration of _______________

Therapist’s function and Role Increase clients’___________ Attend to the_________________ Attend to __________________________ Help clients to experience ________________ Make_____statement

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

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

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______________

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., ____________)

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 ______________

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

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 __________.

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.

Summary and Evaluation-- contribution Enhance ______________ Attend to ________________cues _______________rather than talking about it Focus on _______________________ See each aspect of a dream as __________

Summary and Evaluation- limitation Limitations Ineffective therapists may manipulate the clients with powerful experiential work Some people may need psycho-education