Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self / Edition 1

by Violet Oaklander

Overview

Hidden Treasure is a follow up to Oaklander's first book, Windows To Our Children. Most of the books available in working with this population are written from a traditional 'play therapy' point of view. The Gestalt Therapy-based approach provides a more effective method for psychotherapeutic work with children of all ages. The focus is on the relationship between the therapist and client, rather than observation and interpretation. It is a vigorous, dynamic approach.Violet Oaklander uses a wide variety of creative, expressive and projective techniques in her work, and each chapter reflects and exemplifies the use of this work in the service of therapy. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of ages, as well as individual, family and group settings. The book will interest child and adolescent psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, interns, school personnel as well as graduate-level students. Parents may also find it helpful, as well as adults who are interested in the child within.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855754904
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/15/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Violet Oaklander has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, a Master of Arts in Psychological Counseling; and a Master of Science in Special Education with emotionally disturbed children. For six years she taught emotionally disturbed children in the Long Beach, CA school district and was in private practice from 1972 until 1999 working with adults, families, adolescents, and children. In 1999 she closed her practice and has devoted her time to training and supervising therapists who work with children and adolescents. She has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Cruz and is presently at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. She has conducted hundreds of workshops in the US and around the world on her approach to working with children, and since 1981 has offered a two-week intensive training program for therapists

Table of Contents

Introduction , What brings children into therapy , The therapeutic process with children and adolescents , Enhancing the sense of self of children and adolescents , The many faces of anger , Working with adolescents , Loss and grief , Helping children and adolescents become self-nurturing , Working with very young children , Working with groups , Treating children with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactive disorder , An innovative way to use music in therapy , Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

"The narrative is straightforward and based on accumulated experience of working with children from a veriety of backgrounds. Summing Up: Highly Recommended."

Choice

"Hidden Treasure will sit happily alongside Windows to Our Children on the shelves of practitioners around the world. It offers a gentle and developmentally appropriate approach to helping children heal—and to helping adults understand children."

Peter Mortola

"Hidden Treasure is an essential text for all play therapy practitioners and students. It is a work of great wisdom that distils the vast experience of Violet Oaklander's work with children of all ages and adolescents. The many, many practical examples fully illustrate the application of Gestalt principles in building successful therapeutic relationships to enable the children to discover their true inner selves. This inspiring work will surely become a major landmark in the field just as Windows to Our Children emerged some thirty years ago."

Monika Jephcott

"Hidden Treasure is an essential text for all play therapy practitioners and students. It is a work of great wisdom that distils the vast experience of Violet Oaklander's work with children of all ages and adolescents. The many, many practical examples fully illustrate the application of Gestalt principles in building successful therapeutic relationships to enable the children to discover their true inner selves. This inspiring work will surely become a major landmark in the field just as Windows to Our Children emerged some thirty years ago."

"Hidden Treasure will sit happily alongside Windows to Our Children on the shelves of practitioners around the world. It offers a gentle and developmentally appropriate approach to helping children heal—and to helping adults understand children."

"The narrative is straightforward and based on accumulated experience of working with children from a veriety of backgrounds. Summing Up: Highly Recommended."

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