Which of the following best describes the goals of the Gestalt technique of role playing?
a. Teaching the client how to be fair to people outside the session.
b. Resolving unfinished business and integrating the clients polarities by arousing emotions, discovering needs, and shifting his or her point of view.
c. Demonstrating to the counselor just why the client is having so much difficulty.
d. Encouraging emotional discharge so that the client will feel better.
e. Improving the dramatic potential of any situation in the client's life.
Q. 2Which of the following would NOT be a goal of a Gestalt therapist who is prescribing experimentation?
a. Clarifying the dimensions of the situation.
b. Sharing his or her expertise at problem-solving by suggesting a solution to the problem.
c. Calling forth awareness of how experiences are interrupted or regulated.
d. Staying with a strong impression until it comes into focus.
e. Making the experience vivid.
Q. 3The ___________________ theory of change states that trying to reach an ideal gets you stuck in the same patterns.
a. influential
b. paradoxical
c. chaos
d. Gestalt
e. enlightenment
Q. 4The hands-on methods of working with neuroses encoded in bodily systems shows influences of ______________ systems.
a. internal
b. psychodynamic
c. eastern
d. behavioral
e. external
Q. 5What do Gestalt therapists mean when they refer to a safe emergency?
a. A combination of aroused anxiety and the therapists affirmation and support, creating an atmosphere where creative adjustment to the natural self is possible.
b. Purposefully provoking anxiety in the client and withholding support so that the client can gain awareness of his or her own weaknesses.
c. Encouraging the client to experiment with different behaviorssometimes exaggerated negative ones and sometimes positive ones.
d. A situation where the client is in an emergency but doesnt realize it because he or she has repressed his or her feelings.
e. Arousing possibly harmful memories for a client, but in a situation where there is another therapist close at hand.
Q. 6How does the Gestalt concept of repression compare with Freud's?
a. Repression is a psychoanalytical term that is not used or understood by Gestalt therapists.
b. Like Freud, Gestaltists see repression underlying physical and psychological symptoms, but they dont believe that dealing with repression is curative.
c. Freud emphasized the content of repression, whereas Gestaltists emphasize the process of repression.
d. Freud focused on repression in the form of split-off parts, whereas Gestalt therapists focus on repression in the form of the ego, id, super ego conflict.
Q. 7The most powerful Gestalt interventions are
a. focused in the exploring the past and associated feelings and are awareness-oriented.
b. based on exploring the way a person thinks and encouraging the person to try new ways of thinking.
c. focused in the exploring the mind/body connection. Body awareness is the answer to every psychological problem.
d. focused in the present, are awareness-oriented rather than discussed, and are based on understanding that important personal learning is made through a discovery process.
e. focused in the exploring the past and associated feelings and realizing that you no longer have to be captive of historical experiences.
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