Question: Who among the following is NOT considered a relational Gestalt therapist?

Answer: Fritz Perls

Question: Gestalt therapy is a form of:

Answer: Existential therapy.

Question: Field theory suggests that:

Answer: Everything in human experience is relational and in constant flux.

Question: A healthy contact experience involves:

Answer: Interacting with others while maintaining a sense of self; creativity; maintaining balance between the figure and the ground.

Question: According to the Gestalt view, blocked energy is:

Answer: Both (A defensive behavior and a form of resistance to contact).

Question: Which of the following is NOT considered one of the six methodological components of Gestalt therapy?

Answer: Assessment

Question: A critical difference between early Gestalt therapy and relational Gestalt therapy is:

Answer: The approach to confrontation.

Question: The Gestalt therapist:

Answer: Pays attention to the client's nonverbal language.

Question: In Gestalt theory, the experiment is considered:

Answer: A theoretical proposition crafted to fit the client's unique needs.

Question: When a person experiences an internal conflict (namely a conflict between top dog and underdog), which of the following techniques would be most appropriate?

Answer: The internal dialogue exercise.

Question: Gestalt-therapy techniques are designed to help the client:

Answer: Both (expand awareness of the here-and-now and intensify feelings and experiences).

Question: A Gestalt technique that is most useful when a person attempts to deny an aspect of his or her personality (such as tenderness) is:

Answer: The reversal exercise.

Question: The Gestalt approach to dreams:

Answer: Both (asks the client to become all parts of his or her own dream and has the client actively interpret the meaning of the dream for himself or herself).

Question: The paradoxical theory of behavior change suggests:

Answer: We change through becoming aware of who we currently are.

Question: The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:

Answer: Attaining awareness, and with it greater choice.

Question: From a multicultural perspective, a limitation of Gestalt therapy is that:

Answer: Both (It tends to produce high levels of intense feelings and it is highly focused on direct expression of feelings).

Question: A contribution of this therapeutic approach is that:

Answer: It enables intense experiencing to occur quickly; it can be a relatively brief therapy; it stresses doing and experiencing, as opposed to talking about problems.

Question: According to Gestalt theory, people use avoidance in order to:

Answer: Keep themselves from facing unfinished business; keep from feeling uncomfortable emotions; keep from having to change.

Question: Empirical support for Gestalt therapy is:

Answer: Becoming stronger.

Question: According to gestalt theory, all of the following are true about contact expect:

Answer: Withdrawal after a good contact experience indicates neurosis.

Question: In Gestalt therapy, the relationship between client and counselor is seen as:

Answer: A joint venture; an existential encounter; an I/Thou interaction.

Question: Which of the following is NOT true about Gestalt techniques?

Answer: Experiments are always carried out during the therapy session, rather than outside it.

Question: Which of the following is NOT true about Fritz Perls?

Answer: During his childhood, he was a model student.

Question: Gestalt therapists say that clients resist contact by means of:

Answer: Retroflection; projection; introjection.

Question: Which of the following aspects of a client's use of language would a Gestalt therapist NOT focus on?

Answer: Semantics.

Question: Which of the following is NOT true about the Gestalt view of the role of confrontation in therapy?

Answer: It is not possible to be both confrontive and gentle with clients.

Question: Which of the following Gestalt techniques involves asking one person in a group to speak to each of the other group members?

Answer: Making the rounds.

Question: The empty chair technique:

Answer: Assists clients in re-owning parts of their personality; balances internal polarities; allows clients to externalize an introject; helps to resolve unfinished business.

Question: Which of the following is NOT one of Miriam Polster's three stages in her integration sequence?

Answer: Reunification.

Question: A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is most likely engaging in:

Answer: Retroflection.

Question: Because of his need to be liked, Jose makes careful efforts to get along with everyone and minimize interpersonal conflicts. Which boundary disturbance is Jose exhibiting?

Answer: Confluence.

Question: Which of the following is NOT one of the Gestalt group leader's roles?

Answer: Evoking group catharsis.

Question: Without proper training, Gestalt therapists may:

Answer: Evoke catharsis without having he ability to work it through with their client; design faulty experiments; may use ready made techniques inappropriately; may damage the therapeutic relationship with the client.

Question: Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as:

Answer: An element of therapy that needs to be respected.

Question: Gestalt group work is:

Answer: Action-oriented; focused on the here and now; creative.

Question: In the Gestalt view, unfinished business is best explored in the present.

Answer: TRUE

Question: A Gestalt therapist pays attention to ways the client uses language.

Answer: TRUE

Question: Both contact and withdrawal are necessary and important to healthy functioning.

Answer: TRUE

Question: The Gestalt approach to dream work consists of the therapist interpreting the meaning of the symbols in the dream.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Gestalt therapy relies mainly on psychoanalytic techniques.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Gestalt therapy is designed for individual counseling, and it typically does not work well in groups.

Answer: FALSE

Question: One of the contributions of gestalt therapy is the vast empirical research that has been done to validate the specific techniques used.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Gestaltists typically ask why questions in the attempt to get clients to think about the source of their problems.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Part of the success in using Gestalt techniques is contingent upon preparing clients for these techniques.

Answer: TRUE

Question: Most of the Gestalt techniques are designed to intensify one's experiencing.

Answer: TRUE

Question: Gestalt therapists focus more on why clients are doing than what they are doing.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Since Gestalt therapy focuses on the here-and-now, the past is not explored or given emphasis in this approach.

Answer: FALSE

Question: In Gestalt terms, awareness refers to our connectedness to out external an internal worlds.

Answer: TRUE

Question: Preparing clients for Gestalt exercises destroys both their spontaneity and effectiveness.

Answer: FALSE

Question: Although Perls used a highly confrontational approach in dealing with client avoidance and resistance, the confrontational model is not representative of contemporary Gestalt therapy.

Answer: TRUE