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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gestalt Therapy"”.
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Nonlinearity and Gestalt Therapy : Back to the Beginning
<p>Gestalt methods are explored in the context of the nonlinear view. The original Lewinian equations are updated to the current notions of nonlinear dynamics and current Gestalt Therapy theory. Ordinary differential equations and nonlinear processes are applied some of the key features of Gestalt …
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Gestalt therapy approaches with aggressive children in a day care setting
… study was designed to evaluate whether or not Gestalt therapy approaches could be used effectively when intervening with aggressive acts in a day care setting. Five focus children were observed at timed intervals as to whether or not they were aggressive, how the caretaker intervened, and how …
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Is gestalt therapy compatible with feminist theology?: a study of "practical-values"
… of the meanings of both. This thesis examines gestalt therapy and feminist theology as possible candidates for interdisciplinary work. By reading and interrogating the literature of both disciplines, it identifies their origins and analyses their core ideas. The thesis affirms disputed links …
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The Effects Of Gestalt And Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Group Interventions On The Assertiveness And Self-Esteem Of Women With Physical Disabilities Facing Abuse
… study was to examine the differential effects of Gestalt and Cognitive-Behavioral group therapy interventions on assertiveness and self-esteem among women with physical disabilities facing abuse. The eleven women, who met the study criteria, were randomly assigned to one of two experimental …
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Gestalt Group Psychotherapy With Incarcerated Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Study
… they need. Previous studies have suggested that Gestalt therapy can have beneficial affects for inmates. However, further research examining treatment models for inmates diagnosed with schizophrenia is needed. This current study examined qualitative data from a proposed Gestalt group therapy …
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Music Listening as Therapy
… The unfolding of a song is much like how Gestalt Therapy theory conceptualizes human experience. Mindfulness offers a clear definition of how one can frame and approach experience to support health and well-being. MinMuList (said “min-mew-list”) is an evidenced-based workshop that offers a …
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A Study of the Relationship Between the Levels of Self-Awareness within Students Enrolled in Counseling Practicum and the Measurements of Their Counseling Effectiveness
… and the levels of counselor self-awareness. Gestalt Therapy literature, and the development of the Personal Orientation Inventory (Shostrom, 1963) provided the working definition of self-awareness in this study. Research and evaluation are means for improving the correlation between students' …
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A Sense of Trust: Somatic Spiritual Practices as a Path to Wholeness in Spiritually Integrated Trauma Care
… therapies—notably, gestalt therapy and Eugene Gendlin’s focusing-oriented therapy—as well as interoception research support my argument that embodiment is an important integrative process that can occur in four stages. After summarizing the somatic impact of moral …
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Gestalt group therapists navigating a fracturing field: A disciplined movement-by-movement moment-to-moment aesthetic practice
This thesis aims to show how Gestalt psychotherapists avail of their embodied forms of knowing in their group practice. The literature pertaining to how Gestalt group therapy practitioners attend to their embodied experiences as sensed, felt and lived is marginalised in a modality that has a …
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Finding Tuwaqachi, and Other Essays
… intentional community and center for alternative therapy located in southern Michigan during the 1970s, by examining several lives caught up in this project. Part two of this collection comprises a series of lyric essays which explore the need to be heard, as well as the ultimate fallibility of …
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Forming form: how movement shapes psychotherapists’ practical knowledge
… 2) Autoethnographic writing from my psychotherapy practice, 3) Theoretical concepts. Central to the dissertation are the following: Edmund Husserl’s longitudinal and transversal intentionality, the speaking and the spoken speech as defined by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Nicholas of Cusa’s …