In treating anxiety a gestalt therapist is most likely to:
a. teach the patient to breathe more fully.
b. explore past events which lead to the anxiety.
c. make a referral to a psychiatrist for medication.
d. discuss his/her own feelings of anxiety with the patient.
Q. 2For the process consultation to be effective, which of the following assumptions must be met?
a. The diagnostic process itself is seen as helpful and not disruptive.
b. The consultee has correctly interpreted the organization's symptoms and has located thesick area.
c. The person or group defined as sick will provide the information needed to make a valid diagnosis; they will neither hide data nor exaggerate symptoms.
d. None of the above.
Q. 3A gestalt therapist would view resistance as:
a. intentional thwarting of the therapy process.
b. an attempt to maintain psychological integrity.
c. reflective of an underlying id-superego conflict.
d. created by the patient in response to transference.
Q. 4In process consultation, who defines the problem?
a. The consultee with the consultant
b. The consultee
c. The organization's contact person
d. The consultant
Q. 5A gestalt therapist interprets a patient's neuroticism as continued use of a strategy that was adaptive previously, but is no longer helpful. This means the therapist is seeing the neuroticism as:
a. projection.
b. good gestalt.
c. introjection.
d. creative adjustment.
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