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Identify a hypothetical counseling scenario (client's presenting concern) in which you would appropriately use the Gestalt empty-chair technique. In your answer, briefly describe how you would actually implement the empty-chair technique and provide a rationale for its use.

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A therapeutic issue might involve guilt over how she witnessed domestic abuse of her mother as a child and how it caused a patient to engage in eating disordered behaviors for the rest of her teen and adult life.

I hypothesize that her binge eating and purging is an attempt to control what she could not when she witnessed domestic violence as a child. By using the chair technique and allowing her to talk to that child that she was (and maybe still is), I aim to allow her to relinquish the guilt ...

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