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Skills in Gestalt counselling and psychotherapy

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Skills in counselling and psychotherapyPublication details: Los Angeles Sage Publications 2014Edition: 3rdDescription: x, 303 pISBN:
  • 9781446275870
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89143 J6S5-2014
Summary: This practical guide to the Gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in Gestalt practice. Now in its third edition, the book includes: · New chapters on working with trauma, and building client resources · New material on depression and anxiety · Expanded content on working with more challenging client issues · Integration of leading ideas from contemporary trauma therapies. The authors offer practical guidance on the entire process of therapy including setting up the therapeutic session, creating a working alliance, assessment and treatment direction, managing risk, supervision, adopting a research approach, and managing difficult encounters. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/skills-in-gestalt-counselling-psychotherapy/book241768
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Table of Content:

Preface

PART ONE: GESTALT THERAPY IN PRACTICE
1.
2. Preparing for the Journey
3. Phenomenology and Field Theory
4. Awareness
5. The Therapeutic Relationship
6. Assessment and Diagnosis
7. Treatment Considerations
8. Strengthening Support
9. Shame
10. Experimenting
11. Contact Styles: Modifications to Contact and Polarities
12. Unfinished Business
13. Transference and Counter-Transference
14. Embodied Process
15. Dreams
16. Self-Supervision
17. Ending the Journey

PART TWO: MANAGING CHALLENGING ENCOUNTERS

1. Assessing and Managing Risk
2. Resourcing the Client
3. Depression and Anxiety

Trauma Part 1: Assessing and Stabilizing

Trauma Part 2: Processing and Integrating

PART THREE: GESTALT PRACTICE IN CONTEXT
1.
2. Brief Therapy
3. The Reflective Practitioner: Research in Gestalt
4. Diversity, Culture and Ethics
5. Spiritual Counselling
References
Index

This practical guide to the Gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in Gestalt practice. Now in its third edition, the book includes:



· New chapters on working with trauma, and building client resources

· New material on depression and anxiety

· Expanded content on working with more challenging client issues

· Integration of leading ideas from contemporary trauma therapies.



The authors offer practical guidance on the entire process of therapy including setting up the therapeutic session, creating a working alliance, assessment and treatment direction, managing risk, supervision, adopting a research approach, and managing difficult encounters.


https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/skills-in-gestalt-counselling-psychotherapy/book241768

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