Enhancing Your Therapy with Gestalt Approaches(GE)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: A Brief Review of Gestalt Therapy; Awareness and the "Now"; Techniques for Enhancing Client Awareness; Changing Words; Changing Sentences; Addressing Nonverbal Behaviors; Identification and Projection; Three Fantasy Techniques; Dialogues; Helping the Client Presentize; "I Give You the Power"; Topdog, Underdog Bipolarities; 4 Factors of Avoidance; Gestalt Concept of Acceptance; A Gestalt Approach to Art Therapy; A Case Study Example of Gestalt Art Therapy; Implementing Gestalt Reminiscence Therapy with Older Adults; Integrating Gestalt Theory into Dual Process Model Grief and Mourning Work; Gestalt Techniques and Metaphor Analysis in the Treatment of Depression; Gestalt Principles in Adventure-Based Counseling; Guidelines for Implementing Gestalt Techniques in Adventure-Based Counseling; Interpreting Clients' Choice of Materials in Gestalt Art Therapy; Gestalt Use of Glass: Addressing Feeling Transparent and Exposed; Examining Gestalt Consistency Principles in Objective Self-Awareness Theory; Gestalt Techniques in Dance Therapy; Using the Gestalt Empty Chair Technique to Detriangulate an Absent Father