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Kylie Boardman, Megan Brice, Erin Morgan, Michaela Tratos
Stage 1
Identity and Dependence
Stage 2
Influence and Counterdependence
Stage 3
Intimacy and Interdependence
The most basic goal of a Gestalt group is to provide members with a context that enables them to increase awareness of what they are experiencing and the quality of their contact with others
Developed by Fritz and Laura Perls in the 1940s
Paradoxical theory of change: personal change tends to occur when we become aware of what we are as opposed to trying to become what we are not
Based on the assumption that people are best understood in the context of their environment
the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
unexpressed feelings, events, and memories that remain in the background waiting for completion
understanding the client in the context of their environment (or field) they are living in while also recognizing that their field is always in flux and related to other processes
Grounded in existentialism and is phenomenological
unexpressed emotion (unfinished business) can block energy which then shows up in the body in a variety of ways
the world that clients live in cycle through what is in the foreground (the focus of the client’s attention at any point in time) and what is in the background (the rest of the environment)
fully interacting with our environments and with other people without losing one’s sense of individuality
uncritically accepting others’ beliefs
disowning certain aspects of ourselves by ascribing them to someone else
holding back an impulse and directing it towards the self instead of outwardly
the boundary between self and other becomes so blurred that the boundary is lost
avoiding direct contact in favor of a partial, less satisfying experience with our environments
Erving & Meriam Polster
pioneered relational Gestalt therapy (RGT)
describes the self-regulatory relationship between the client and their environment
paying attention to the structure of experience, with specific attention to the what and how of such experiencing
Gestalt therapy emphasizes learning to appreciate and fully experience the present
What are individual goals of Gestalt Therapy, and how may they be incorporated in group therapy?
Experiences and experiments
Language- verbal and nonverbal
Internal Dialogues
Making the Rounds
Fantasy Approaches
Rehearsal
Exaggeration
Dream Work
Individual Goals in Gestalt Group Therapy
10 min
Direct experiencing & experimenting
Direct contact & personal presence
Attention to what & how
Here-and-now focus
Therapist has knowledge of many developmentally appropriate exercises.
The major focus would be to allow children to be aware of what they are doing, how they are doing it and how they can change.
Gestalt Therapist pay close attention to how clients view their world
Therapists are less likely to impose personal values and beliefs due to phenomenological attitude