Developing Gestalt Counselling: A Field Theoretical and Relational Model of Contemporary Gestalt Counselling and Psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Mackewn

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Supportive yet challenging, this volume contains 30 useful hints and reminders to help both students and professionals in counseling examine and improve key areas of ther work. Developing Gestalt Counseling encourages counselors to focus on areas that they feel need special attention by covering topics such as relationship and dialogue, assessment in the Gestalt approach; contact, awareness, proactivity, and responsibility; and experimental and creative methods. Author Jennifer Mackewn provides an easy-to-read and informative book for readers who are already familiar with the fundamentals of counseling and have begun work with clients in counseling psychology and social work settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A field theoretical and relational model of contemporary integrative Gestalt
Part I - Attending to Beginnings: Initial Conditions and Existential Meeting
Chapter 1 - Using initial session(s) for meeting, clarification and two-way assessment
Part II - Exploring the Client's Context and Culture
Chapter 2 - Attending to the whole person
Chapter 3 - Understanding field theory and meeting clients from a field perspective
Chapter 4 - Understanding how people organise their psychological field
Chapter 5 - Using phenomenological methods to describe and investigate the field
Chapter 6 - Understanding the paradoxical theory of change
Part III - Developing a Dialogic Relationship as a Crucible for Self Development
Chapter 7 - Understanding Gestalt theories of self and their implications
Chapter 8 - Understanding the dialogic relationship and developing a person to person dialogue
Chapter 9 - Making a working alliance with clients
Chapter 10 - Understanding transferential processes within the dialogic relationship
Chapter 11 - Integrating the different components of dialogic relating in practice
Part IV - Observing Process, Developing Diagnostic Perspectives and Therapeutic Strategies
Chapter 12 - Observing clients' processes of contact and styles of moderating contact, while developing diagnostic perspectives
Part V - Exploring Awareness and Contact
Chapter 13 - Exploring and developing awareness and contact
Chapter 14 - Reintegrating disowned aspects or polarities of the self
Chapter 15 - Exploring personal responsibility
Part VI - Integrating Experimental, Creative and Transpersonal Dimensions
Chapter 16 - Integrating creative imagination and experiments
Chapter 17 - Introducing and developing imagery and metaphor
Chapter 18 - Introducing fantasy and visualisation
Chapter 19 - Working with dreams
Chapter 20 - Opening to the transpersonal and caring for soul
Part VII - Working with Embodiment, Energy and 'Resistance'
Chapter 21 - Using embodiment, movement and play
Chapter 22 - Attending to body process and energy flow
Chapter 23 - Appreciating the wisdom of 'resistance', while exploring the impasse
Part VIII - Attending to the Background* Features and Processes in Clients' Lives
Chapter 24 - Attending to the ground from which figures of contact arise
Chapter 25 - Exploring and developing awareness of support systems
Chapter 26 - Identifying and unravelling life themes
Chapter 27 - Attending to continuity, assimilation and completion
Chapter 28 - Calibrating your approach for people who have a fragile sense of self or are easily shamed
Part IX - Shaping Counselling over Time
Chapter 29 - Shaping therapeutic work over time
Chapter 30 - Attending to the final stages and endings
Conclusion: Simplicity, complexity and paradox in Gestalt counselling and therapy
Appendices
References
Index