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29 Cards in this Set
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What does Gestalt mean?
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holistic
The Now - focus is on the present |
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Unfinished Business
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feelings from the past, which have been suppressed
can be expressed through psychosomatic symptoms |
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5 layers of the Human Personality (Gestalt)
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Phony
Phobic Impasse Implosive Explosive |
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4 Gestalt Principles
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Holism
Field Theory Figure-Formation Process Organismic Self-Regulation |
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5 Main Types of Resistances to Contact (Gestalt)
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Projection
Retroflection Introjection Deflection Confluence |
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Books by William Glasser
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Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom
Reality Therapy Schools Without Failure |
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Glasser believed the underlying problems of any emotional disorder are:
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1. The client does not have a relationship
2. The client is involved in an unsatisfying relationship |
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Glasser's WDEP System
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W Wants and Needs
D Direction and Doing E Evaluation P Planning and Commitment |
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Glasser 5 Needs
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Survival
Love and belonging power freedom fun |
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Existential
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process
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Carl Rogers
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Person-Centered Approach
pioneered the Humanistic movement in psychotherapy |
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Existentialists stress...
Humanists stress... |
anxiety and choices
our natural potential if fostered |
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Incongruence
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a discrepancy between one's self perception and one's experience in reality
The difference between the ideal self and the real self |
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Person-centered approach
Therapeutic techniques |
reflect - repeating what client says
summarize - essence of what was said clarify - 1. asking client if on right track "am I hearing correctly" 2. more crystalization, understanding what client means |
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Person-centered approach
Therapist needs to possess 3 personal attitudes |
2. unconditional positive regard or acceptance
3. accurate empathic understanding 1. congruence or genuineness |
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Key Philosophers
Existentialism Key Psychologists |
Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Jean-Paul Sartre, Soren Kierkegaard, Friendrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Victor Frankl, Rollo May, Irvin Yalom |
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Existential Books
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Man's Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
The Meaning of Anxiety Love and Will - Rollo May |
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Existentialism
6 basic dimensions of the human condition |
1. self-awareness
2. aware of own death 3. anxiety is a condition of life 4. freedom and responsibility 5. search for meaning 6. strive for identity and relationships |
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Person-Centered Approach
6 conditions for positive psychological change to take place |
1. 2 ppl must be in psychological contact
2. client must be experienceing some incongruency 3. therapist is integrated in the relationship 4. therapist experiences unconditional positive regard and acceptance for the client 5. therapist experiences an empathic understanding of the client's internal frame of reference and strives to communicate this exp to client 6. communication to the client of the therapist's empathic understanding and acceptance is to a minimal degree achieved |
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Holism
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all dimensions of human functioning
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Field Theory
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seen within context of environment
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Figure-Formation Process
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how individuals organize their environment
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Organismic Self-Regulation
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new focus or need, emerges.. equilibrium is disturbed
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Introjection
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uncritically accepting the beliefs of others without assimilation
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Projection
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Not owning aspects of oneself, but placing them onto others
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Retroflection
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Doing to oneself, what one would like to do to others, or what one would like others to do to us
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Deflection
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The use of distractions, such as humor, so that others do not see one's true self
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Confluence
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A burring of differentiation between the self and others
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Gestalt Experiments
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"I" Statements
metaphors and narratives body language confrontation empty chair role plays top dog vs. under dog reversal techniques rehearsal and exaggeration staying with the feeling |