Windows To Our Children: A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Working with Children and Adolescents

by Violet Oaklander, Ph.D.

Windows To Our Children has been used by counselors and psychologist since its publication in 1978. It includes examples of therapy sessions with children and adolescents and offers a wealth of examples of the use of therapeutic techniques such as expression through art, clay, poetry, story telling, the sand tray, music and puppets with Gestalt Therapy theory, practice and technique as the underlying framework.

A major section, "Specific Problem Behaviors", explores aggression, anger, the hyperactive child, the withdrawn child, fears, specific stress, conditions, traumatic experiences, physical symptoms, autism, guilt, and self-esteem.

This book crosses cultural boundaries. It has been translated into thirteen languages and the original English version has been used extensively in South Africa, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

This book can be a window to the child within you as well as to the children you are with.

HOW TO GET THIS BOOK:

• The Gestalt Journal Press Online Bookstore.
• Visit www.gestalt.org and select the bookstore link.
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• By contacting Max Sound (562) 856-4832 or email maxsound@charter.net (my tape distributor).
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• Try www.Bestbookbuys.com. They will tell you where to get the book
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• Call the Self Esteem Shop: 1-800-251-8336
• or www.selfesteemshop.com
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• Try the Association for Play Therapy (APT) bookstore: www.a4pt.org or call (559) 252-2278.
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• Asking your bookstore to order it. (Gestalt Journal Press, 1988.) It is NOT out-of-print. (The original verson from Real People Press, 1978 is out-of-print.) ISBN: 0-939266-06-7