Phil Joyce & Charlotte Sills 
Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy [PDF ebook] 

This practical guide to the gestalt approach has successfully introduced thousands of trainee therapists to the essential skills needed in gestalt practice. The authors offer practical guidance on the entire process of therapy including setting up the therapeutic session, creating a working alliance, assessment and treatment direction, managing risk, supervision, adopting a research approach, and managing difficult encounters.



The
Fourth Edition has been updated to include:

• Some implications of working in the twenty-first century, including working virtually


• Updated content on trauma


• An enhanced discussion of mindfulness and awareness


• New case examples and exercises


• Updated references and further reading

Daftar Isi

PART ONE: GESTALT THERAPY IN PRACTICE

Chapter 1: The Important First Steps

Chapter 2: Phenomenology and Field Theory

Chapter 3: Awareness

Chapter 4: The Therapeutic Relationship

Chapter 5: Assessment and Diagnosis

Chapter 6: Treatment Considerations

Chapter 7: Strengthening Support

Chapter 8: Shame

Chapter 9: Difference and Diversity

Chapter 10: Experimenting

Chapter 11: Making Contact

Chapter 12: Unfinished Business

Chapter 13: Transference and Counter-transference

Chapter 14: Embodied Process

Chapter 15: Working with Dreams

Chapter 16: Ending the Journey

PART TWO: SPECIALIZED AREAS OF PRACTICE

Chapter 17: Assessing and Managing Risk

Chapter 18: Resourcing the Client

Chapter 19: Depression and Anxiety

Chapter 20: Trauma Part 1: Assessing and Stabilizing

Chapter 21: Trauma Part 2: Processing and Integrating

Chapter 22: Brief Therapy

Chapter 23: Working Virtually

Chapter 24: Spirituality in Counselling

Chapter 25: Ethical Dilemmas

Chapter 26: The Reflective Practitioner

Chapter 27: Self-Supervision

Tentang Penulis

Charlotte Sills is a UKCP registered psychotherapist in private practice and a coach, supervisor, trainer and consultant in a variety of settings. She is a BACP senior accredited supervisor, a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and member of faculty on the MSc in Executive Coaching and PG Dip in Organisational Supervision at Ashridge Hult Business School where she is Professor of Coaching.Until 2007 she was part of the Leadership Team at Metanoia Institute, London where she was the Head of the Transactional Analysis Department, offering an MSc Programme in TA Psychotherapy and BSc in Counselling.  She remains an occasional member of the faculty in the TA, Gestalt and Integrative Departments. Charlotte believes that all human systems – from friendships to organizations – are about people in relationship. She has published widely in the field of relational therapy and coaching, including, with Helena Hargaden,  Transactional Analysis – A Relational Perspective (Karnac 2002) and Coaching Relationships (edited with Erik de Haan, Libri Press, 2012).