- Gestalt Therapy With Children: This tape covers Gestalt
therapy concepts applied to work with children; relationships
of organismic self-regulation to children's needs; the child's
sense of self and issues of contact; contact boundary disturbances;
and vital considerations in the therapy process.
- The Therapy Process With Children and Adolescents:
This tape covers the initial session; the issue of contact; the
contact functions; the role of resistance; enhancing self-support;
promoting emotional expression; dealing with the child's process;
and termination.
- Treating Children with Symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactive
Disorder: Dr. Oaklander finds it extremely interesting that
such a large percentage of children are diagnosed as having attention
deficit or hyperactive disorders. This tape discusses possible
causes, the issue of medication, and how Dr. Oaklander views
these disorders from a Gestalt Therapy perspective. The main
focus of the tape, however, is to explore the treatment of these
children. This is an area which Dr. Oaklander finds lacking in
everything she hears and reads about ADHD. Those who work with
children see a great many who are brought into therapy with this
diagnosis. How can we best help them feel good about themselves
and develop and grow in healthy ways? This tape presents many
case examples of children in Dr. Oaklander's practice over the
years and their response to various modes of treatment. Although
this tape is directed to therapists it is believed parents, and
teachers as well, will find it revealing and helpful.
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- Working with the Anger of Children and Adolescents:
This tape covers anger as it relates to self; what children do
with anger; steps in working with anger; techniques for working
with anger; very young children and anger; adolescents and anger;
and families and anger.
- Helping Children and Adolescents to Become Self-Nurturing:
This tapes deals with the whole aspect of transforming negative,
bad feelings about the self into loving, nurturing feelings toward
the self. Since children tend to blame themselves for everything
that happens to them, and since feelings of shame and guilt are
often insidiously pervasive at the deepest level of the child's
psyche, helping children learn to be self-accepting and actively
self-nurturing is the single most important element in the therapeutic
process. The tape gives very specific examples of how to do this
with children of all ages -- from the very young child to the
adolescent (and adult).
- Music As Therapy: A Therapeutic Use of Music Making with
Children and Adolescents: This tape presents a novel approach
to using music making as a therapeutic experience. Music is continually
created all around us in the sounds of birds, animals, insects,
wind, and sea. Within each child -- within each of US -- is the
capacity to create music. Through a natural form of music making,
adapted from the work of the renowned musician Paul Winter, children
experience and express aspects of the self in new ways while
enhancing contact and communication skills. The experience is
both enlivening and nourishing -- energizing, while soothing
and calming. This approach can be used in individual, group,
and family therapy.
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