NURS 665 MIDTERM EXAM:RESEARCHED & CONFIRMED
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Retroflection - CORRECT ANSWERS -The act of turning back onto ourselves
something we would like to do (or have done) to someone else.
Deflection - CORRECT ANSWERS -Interruption of awareness so that it is difficult to
maintain a sense of contact. Example: overuse of humor or questions instead of
statements
Confluence - CORRECT ANSWERS -Blurring awareness between self and
environment. Style of contact that is characteristic of group members who have a high
need to be accepted and liked; they will have difficulty having their own thoughts or
speaking for themselves
Gestalt: Past - CORRECT ANSWERS -To live more fully in the present, clients need to
identify and deal with anything from the past that interfere with current functioning. By
re-experiencing past conflicts as if they were occurring in the present, clients expand
their level of awareness and are able to integrate denied and fragmented parts of
themselves, thus becoming unified and whole.
Participants bring past problem situations into the present by reenacting the situation as
if it were occurring now.
Gestalt: Dreams - CORRECT ANSWERS -Gestalt therapy does NOT interpret and
analyze dreams (pg. 314-315). The intent is to bring the dream back to life, to recreate
it, and to relive it as if it were happening now. Group members are asked to tell the
dream as if it were happening in the present, identify with a segment of the dream and
narrate their dream from a subjective perspective.
Advantages of this approach is increasing group cohesion, great potential for dealing
with unfinished business with other group members and linking one member's work with
others (pg. 316).
Gestalt Therapy Goal - CORRECT ANSWERS -to provide a context that enables
members to increase their awareness of what they are experiencing and the quality of
the contact they are making with others. Moment-to-moment awareness of one's
experiencing, together with the almost immediate awareness of one's blocks to such
experiencing, is seen as therapeutic in and of itself (pp. 292).
Basic goal of Gestalt therapy is increased awareness, which in and of itself is seen as
curative or growth producing
Gestalt Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS -Existential-phenomenological approach
based on the premise that individuals must be understood in the context of their
,ongoing relationship with the environment. Group members are able to come to grips
with what and how they are thinking, feeling, and doing as they interact with others in
the group
Encourages clients to accept responsibility for who they are and for what they are doing
and to learn to distinguish perceiving, feeling, and acting from other intellectual
functions and attitudes.
Affirms the human capacity for growth and healing through interpersonal contact and
awareness. This approach is phenomenological in that it emphasizes how we see the
world, how we contribute to creating our experience, and how we organize our world
and ourselves.
Contemporary Gestalt Therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS -called relational Gestalt
therapy, includes more support and increased kindness and compassion in therapy
Gestalt therapy- holism: - CORRECT ANSWERS -The whole is greater than the sum of
its parts.
Gestalt practice attends to a client's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, body, and dreams as
they become figural or move into the foreground for clients. We can only be understood
if we take into consideration all dimensions of human functioning
Gestalt group therapy: Awareness: - CORRECT ANSWERS -requires self-knowledge,
responsibility for choices, contact with the environment, immersion in current
experience, self acceptance, and the ability to make contact
Gestalt group therapy: the here and now - CORRECT ANSWERS -important of
members being able to appreciate the present- present centeredness to increase
awareness and bring about change
Gestalt group therapy: Unfinished Business: - CORRECT ANSWERS -Includes
unexpressed feelings—such as resentment, hate, rage, pain, hurt, anxiety, guilt, shame,
and grief—and events and memories that linger in the background and clamor for
completion.
Unless these unfinished situations and unexpressed emotions become figural and are
dealt with, they will interfere with present-centered awareness and with our effective
functioning (p. 298)
Gestalt group therapy: contact: - CORRECT ANSWERS -is made by seeing, hearing,
smelling, touching, and moving.
Types of contact in gestalt group therapy: introjection, projection, retroflection,
deflection, confluence
, Introjection - CORRECT ANSWERS -involves the tendency to accept others' beliefs and
standards uncritically without assimilating them and making them congruent with who
we are.
Projection - CORRECT ANSWERS -disowning certain aspects of ourselves by ascribing
them to the environment. (bases of transference)
Gestalt: Experiments - CORRECT ANSWERS -In Gestalt group experiments, members
are invited to try out some new behavior (behavior modeling) and to pay attention to
what they experience
a group experiment is a creative happening that grows out of the group experience; as
such it cannot be predetermined, and its outcome cannot be predicted
"Experiments emerge organically and seamlessly in the moment-to-moment contact
between a counselor and a client, and they are discovered within that dialogic process"
Examples include: dramatizing a painful memory, imagining a dreaded encounter,
playing one's parent, creating a dialogue between two parts within oneself, attending to
an overlooked gesture, or exaggerating a certain posture.
Empty Chair Technique
Group leaders do not interpret dreams but assist in active self exploration
Gestalt: Present - CORRECT ANSWERS -Emphasis on learning to appreciate and fully
experience the present. The past is gone, and the future has not yet arrived, whereas
the present moment is lively and exciting.
Person-Centered Approach: Self-Actualization - CORRECT ANSWERS -Tendency for a
person to reach their fullest potential through self-discovery and personal growth.
Person-Centered Approach: Positive Regard - CORRECT ANSWERS -This is a
person's need for appreciation, love, respect, etc. from another person. There are two
types of positive regard:
1. Unconditional positive regard is receiving positive responses from people no matter
the action, behavior, etc.
2.Conditional positive regard is the reinforcement of certain actions, behaviors, etc. over
others. A result of conditional positive regard is condition of worth. This is when a
person feels worthy only if they meet certain conditions.
Person-Centered Approach: Congruence - CORRECT ANSWERS -The agreement
between a person's self-concept (the way they see themselves), their real self (who they
really are), and their ideal self (the way they would like to be). The more those three
views agree, the more congruence a person has.
