In Gestalt terms, what causes anxiety?
a. A lack of autonomy resulting in feeling too needy around other people.
b. A preoccupation with the past.
c. Anticipating that we do not or will not have the support we need.
d. A failure to identify supportive people in our lives.
e. The split-off parts of ourselves.
Answer: c
Q. 2Fritz Perls used the term boundaries to mean the
a. lines between ourselves and others that both connect us and separate us.
b. place where our needs end and the needs of others begin.
c. lines we draw to keep other peoples feelings at a distance.
d. barriers we need cross in order to live without the support of others, achieving autonomy.
e. limits of our self-awareness.
Q. 3How did Perls conceptualize the communication between counselor and client?
a. Like behaviorists, Perls believed that the quality of the relationship between the counselor and the client is not as important as the counselors skills.
b. Perls felt that the quality of the relationship is the responsibility of the client. A properly motivated client will connect and benefit. One who is not will not.
c. Perls believed that remembering and explaining are the main processes of communication leading to awareness.
d. Much like humanistic theorists, Perls believed that empathic contact between the counselor and client was critical for therapy to succeed.
e. Perls believed that predicting and analyzing are the main processes of communication leading to awareness.
Q. 4What was the name of Fritz Perls autobiography?
a. Under the Couch
b. Polarities
c. In and Out the Garbage Pail
d. On Becoming
e. My Life; The Onion
Q. 5Which of the following does Gestalt therapy share with psychodynamic and humanistic theories?
a. A focus on feelings.
b. A focus on the here-and-now.
c. An interest in the clients historical traumas.
d. The lack of a central theme.
e. The belief that the inability to accept opposites within one's self constitutes psychological distress.
Q. 6Fritz Perls substituted Freuds superego-id conflict with
a. the id-ego conflict.
b. a good guybad guy metaphor.
c. the unconscious and conscious conceptualization that was more typical of Jung.
d. the metaphor of a battle between top-dog and under-dog.
e. Introspection and self-awareness.
Q. 7When used in a Gestalt context, the term homeostasis means that the client is
a. comfortable and unwilling to change.
b. centered, psychologically hovering in the middle between polarities.
c. fixed firmly at one end of the polarities of an issue, and therefore has no difficulty making decisions.
d. perfectly happy living in the past.
e. living for the future and not worrying about the past.
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