With respect to anxiety and defenses, gestalt therapy would most likely say that anxiety:
a. keeps the patient from having to take action and move ahead into the future.
b. is the gap between the here and now, and the here and there.
c. is not the cause of problems, but rather a troubling result of a divided life.
d. is the threat that comes from breaking rules that have been internalized.
Q. 2Which of these theories has had the LEAST direct concern with gender issues?
a. Adlerian therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. feminist therapy
d. Jungian therapy
Q. 3Regarding catharsis, a client in gestalt therapy would most likely be characterized by which of the following statements?
a. Catharsis is not a part of gestalt therapy.
b. Their task is to make their bodies available for therapeutic intervention.
c. They discuss problems as coming from outside themselves.
d. They probably participate in dream work.
Q. 4Feminist therapy has had the greatest influence on
a. Adlerian therapy.
b. family systems therapy.
c. gestalt therapy.
d. reality therapy.
Q. 5Of the therapies listed below, which would most likely say that in helping clients achieve catharsis, the therapist must be effective in using spontaneous humor?
a. Behavior therapies c. Gestalt therapy
b. Emotional flooding therapies d. Person-centered therapy
Q. 6In the future, research on theories of psychotherapy is likely to focus on
a. studying problems in psychotherapeutic treatments.
b. definitive studies to show which theories are most effective.
c. long term therapy.
d. reality therapy.
Q. 7Of the therapies listed below, which would most likely say that the therapist's foremost responsibility is to frustrate the patient?
a. Behavior therapies c. Gestalt therapy
b. Emotional flooding therapies d. Person-centered therapy