| Description |
ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Developing counselling |
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Developing counselling.
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| Contents |
Introduction: A field theoretical and relational model of contemporary integrative Gestalt -- I. Attending to Beginnings: Initial Conditions and Existential Meeting. 1. Using initial session(s) for meeting, clarification and two-way assessment -- II. Exploring the Client's Context and Culture. 2. Attending to the whole person. 3. Understanding field theory and meeting clients from a field perspective. 4. Understanding how people organise their psychological field. 5. Using phenomenological methods to describe and investigate the field. 6. Understanding the paradoxical theory of change -- III. Developing a Dialogic Relationship as a Crucible for Self Development. 7. Understanding Gestalt theories of self and their implications. 8. Understanding the dialogic relationship and developing a person to person dialogue. 9. Making a working alliance with clients. 10. Understanding transferential processes within the dialogic relationship. 11. Integrating the different components of dialogic relating in practice -- IV. Observing Process, Developing Diagnostic Perspectives and Therapeutic Strategies. 12. Observing clients' processes of contact and styles of moderating contact, while developing diagnostic perspectives -- V. Exploring Awareness and Contact. 13. Exploring and developing awareness and contact. 14. Reintegrating disowned aspects or polarities of the self. 15. Exploring personal responsibility -- VI. Integrating Experimental, Creative and Transpersonal Dimensions. 16. Integrating creative imagination and experiments. 17. Introducing and developing imagery and metaphor. 18. Introducing fantasy and visualisation. 19. Working with dreams. 20. Opening to the transpersonal and caring for soul -- VII. Working with Embodiment, Energy and 'Resistance'. 21. Using embodiment, movement and play. 22. Attending to body process and energy flow. 23. Appreciating the wisdom of 'resistance', while exploring the impasse -- VIII. Attending to the Background Features and Processes in Clients' Lives. 24. Attending to the ground from which figures of contact arise. 25. Exploring and developing awareness of support systems. 26. Identifying and unravelling life themes. 27. Attending to continuity, assimilation and completion. 28. Calibrating your approach for people who have a fragile sense of self or are easily shamed -- IX. Shaping Counselling over Time. 29. Shaping therapeutic work over time. 30. Attending to the final stages and endings -- Conclusion: Simplicity, Complexity and Paradox in Gestalt Counselling and Therapy -- App. 1. Examples of Gestalt intake sheet and initial contract form -- App. 2. Integrating Gestalt and Psychiatric Diagnosis -- App. 3. Form to support Gestalt diagnosis of process and psychiatric diagnosis -- App. 4. Diagnostic criteria for those with borderline and narcissistic self process -- App. 5. Co-designing Gestalt experiments with clients -- App. 6. Complex cycles in individual, group and systemic process -- App. 7. Shame in the intersubjective field. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-259) and index. |
| Subject |
Gestalt therapy.
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Gestalt Therapy.
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Counseling -- methods.
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| ISBN |
080397860X |
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0803978618 paperback |
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