NCMHCE Gestalt Theory Exam
2025/2026 With 100% Correct Answers
"Personality like an onion" CORRECT ANSWERS Perls
viewed the personality like an onion, containing five layers
needing to be peeled in order to reach maturity. These layers
were labeled as the phony, the phobic, the impasse, the
implosive, and the explosive.
Anxiety CORRECT ANSWERS Viewed in Gestalt therapy as
the space between the present moment and the excitement of
creative expression
Awareness CORRECT ANSWERS It is through insight, self-
acceptance, direct experience, and responsibility for choices
where change takes place. This is the primary function of the
therapist in Gestalt therapy.
Block energy CORRECT ANSWERS This is another form of
resistance by which tension is manifested in the body preventing
one from breathing easily, relaxing, or feeling. If one discovers
the places where the energy is blocked then one can obtain
awareness.
, Confluence CORRECT ANSWERS One of the five channels of
resistance in Gestalt therapy when one attempts to blend in and
go along with others, avoiding conflicts in order to feel accepted
Contact CORRECT ANSWERS Growth occurs when one is
able to connect and interact with others without sacrificing one's
autonomy or individuality and without dependency or fusion.
Deflection CORRECT ANSWERS One of the five channels of
resistance in Gestalt therapy where one attempts to avoid or
distract from emotional contact by overuse of humor,
generalizations, and questions
Empty chair CORRECT ANSWERS A technique used in
Gestalt therapy to process interpersonal problems where the
client role-plays to unfold conversations he/or she may have
with the object or the individual who is not present
Explosive layer CORRECT ANSWERS When one lets go of the
phony roles, he/or she begins to feel alive when there is an
outpouring of energy build up from behaving inauthentically.
Field theory CORRECT ANSWERS It is important the
individual be examined within his/or her environment or context
because everything is relational.
2025/2026 With 100% Correct Answers
"Personality like an onion" CORRECT ANSWERS Perls
viewed the personality like an onion, containing five layers
needing to be peeled in order to reach maturity. These layers
were labeled as the phony, the phobic, the impasse, the
implosive, and the explosive.
Anxiety CORRECT ANSWERS Viewed in Gestalt therapy as
the space between the present moment and the excitement of
creative expression
Awareness CORRECT ANSWERS It is through insight, self-
acceptance, direct experience, and responsibility for choices
where change takes place. This is the primary function of the
therapist in Gestalt therapy.
Block energy CORRECT ANSWERS This is another form of
resistance by which tension is manifested in the body preventing
one from breathing easily, relaxing, or feeling. If one discovers
the places where the energy is blocked then one can obtain
awareness.
, Confluence CORRECT ANSWERS One of the five channels of
resistance in Gestalt therapy when one attempts to blend in and
go along with others, avoiding conflicts in order to feel accepted
Contact CORRECT ANSWERS Growth occurs when one is
able to connect and interact with others without sacrificing one's
autonomy or individuality and without dependency or fusion.
Deflection CORRECT ANSWERS One of the five channels of
resistance in Gestalt therapy where one attempts to avoid or
distract from emotional contact by overuse of humor,
generalizations, and questions
Empty chair CORRECT ANSWERS A technique used in
Gestalt therapy to process interpersonal problems where the
client role-plays to unfold conversations he/or she may have
with the object or the individual who is not present
Explosive layer CORRECT ANSWERS When one lets go of the
phony roles, he/or she begins to feel alive when there is an
outpouring of energy build up from behaving inauthentically.
Field theory CORRECT ANSWERS It is important the
individual be examined within his/or her environment or context
because everything is relational.
