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Existential approach and philosophy✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ Explores the here and
now without looking into the past and emphasizes a person's responsibility
for their own existence.
◦ The approach is experiential/relational and based on the philosophical
concern with what it means to be fully human.
◦ Emphasis is based on understanding the human experience and focuses on
the client rather than the symptom.
Gestalt Therapy✔✔ ANSWER✔✔Gestalt, a German word meaning organized
whole, recognizes the unity of humans as integrated wholes, not divided into
parts, taken out of context, or generalized
Key themes and principles of gestalt therapy✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ The more we
work at becoming who or what we are not, the more we remain the same
◦ Authentic change occurs more from being who we are, rather than trying
to be who we are not (ex.- focusing on your inherent strengths, instead of
working on weaknesses)
◦ Be here, be now
,Founder of gestalt therapy✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ Founded by Fritz Perls
Awareness in Gestalt✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ The initial goal is for clients to
expand their awareness of what they are experiencing in the present
moment
◦ Increased awareness is considered curative and by becoming aware, clients
can be integrated, or whole
"Here and Now" (Gestalt)✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ The focus of Gestalt is NOT on
the why of behavior, but rather on the what and how of behavior & the here
and now
◦ Gestalt therapists are sensitive to how the here and now includes residues
from the past, such as body posture, habits, and beliefs
Impasse (Gestalt)✔✔ ANSWER✔✔that point where we don't progress in our
self-support maturity but need to continue the manipulation of their
environment (including people) to survive. This manipulation may include
playing helpless, crazy, angry, whatever it takes to get the other support they
feel they need.
Dialogue (Gestalt)✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ Inclusion, presence, commitment to
dialogue, no exploitation, dialogue is lived
Goals of Gestalt✔✔ ANSWER✔✔The goal is awareness and restoring his/her
natural state of self-regulation. The goal is not an intellectual understanding
or the "why's" of one's problems, rather Gestalt focuses on the following:
, ◦ Acceptance of personal responsibility and assuming ownership of
experiences, including accepting the consequences of one's actions
◦ Move towards an increased awareness of themselves and the present
moment
◦ Moving on from environmental support to self-support
◦ Dealing with the impasse
Empty chair (Gestalt)✔✔ ANSWER✔✔◦ Empty chair dialogue, dreamwork,
fantasy games, top dog/under-dog techniques
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy✔✔ ANSWER✔✔Dyadic
Developmental Psychotherapy involves the child and parents working
together with the therapist. The child gains relationship experience which
helps her/him to grow and heal emotionally. Family members develop
healthy patterns of relating and communicating.
Key themes and principles (Dyadic)✔✔ ANSWER✔✔DDP suggests that early
trauma significantly disrupts normal developing attachment and creates a
distorted perception of self, others, and caregivers
Existential Psychotherapy✔✔ ANSWER✔✔"A phenomenological-personal
psychotherapy with the aim of enabling a person to experience his or her life
freely at the spiritual and emotional levels, to arrive at authentic decisions
and to come to a responsible way of dealing with himself or herself and the
world around them.
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