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Gestalt Therapy - Fritz Perls (Polsters)

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Contribution (Gestalt)

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-creative and lively approach uses experiment to move clients from talk to action and experience -clients provided with a wide range of tools for discovering new facets of themselves and changing their lives -holistic approach that values each aspects of individuals experience equally -approach to working with dreams is a unique pathway for people to increase their awareness of key themes in their lives -key strength of Gestalt therapy is the attempt to integrate theory, practice, and research

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Organismic Self-Regulation

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Emergence of need sensations and interest disturb an individual's equilibrium

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Limitation (Gestalt)

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-Therapists can get too technique oriented because of the plethora of available techniques -Not much room for psychoeducational because the client comes up with things and the therapist is the facilitator -Requires therapists to have high level of personal development and self awareness

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Unfinished Business

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Feelings about the past are unexpressed -Feelings associated with distinct memories and fantasies -Feelings not fully experienced, linger in the background and interfere with effective contact -Manifest in unexpressed feelings such as resentment, rage, hatred, pain, anxiety

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View of Human Nature (Gestalt)

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-Grounded in existential philosophy, phenomenology and field theory -Anti-deterministic: Believe that people have the ability to change and become responsible -Individuals emphasize intellectual experience, diminishing the importance of emotions and senses, resulting in an inability to respond to the situations or events in their life -Places trust on the inner wisdom of people, much as person-centered counseling does -Each person seeks to live interactively and productively striving to coordinate the various parts of the person into a healthy unified whole -Emphasizes here and now -Humans have the capacity to self regulate when they are aware of what is happening in and around them

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Blocked Energy

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a form of defensive behavior that may result in unfinished business

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Goals of Therapy (Gestalt)

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-obtaining greater awareness which allows greater choice -Involves: -Knowing the environment and what is happening around us -Knowing ourselves and accepting all aspects of ourselves -Being able to make contact with internal and external world -Awareness provides the capacity to face, accept, and integrate denied parts working toward owning our experiences with the opportunity to become integrated or whole -Emphasis on the here and now -Client is encouraged to make choices based on the now as opposed to past -Assist the client to reach maturity intellectually -Help the client shed neuroses

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Principles of Gestalt Therapy

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Holism, Field Theory, Figure Formation Process, Organismic self-regulation

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Paradoxical Theory of Change

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Authentic change occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we are not

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Boundary Disturbance/Resistance to Contact

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-The defenses we develop to prevent us from experiencing the present fully -Attempt to gain control in your environment through a channel of "resistance"

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Field Theory

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The client's environment which consists of therapist and client and all that goes on between them (constantly changing surroundings)

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Figure Formation Process

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-how an individual organizes experiences from moment to moment -Foreground: Figure (most salient aspects of clients experience at any moment) -Background: Ground (aspects of client's experience that are out of awareness)

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Therapeutic Relationship (Gestalt)

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-Person-to-Person -Relationship is experienced in the here and now -Relationship is of complete acceptance -Therapist is genuine -Therapist self discloses in appropriate ways -Therapist is therapeutic tool -Willing to explore client's fear, expectation, blockage, resistance, and feelings

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Holism

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The full range of human functioning includes thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, language and dreams

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Contact

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Interacting with nature and other people without losing individuality

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