Heart of Development, V. 2: Adolescence

by McConville; Mark

• ISBN13: 9780881633504
• ISBN10: 088163350X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Gestalt Press

Summary

In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents, and their families and worlds. From the theoretical to the hands-on, and from the clinical office or playroom to family settings, schools, institutions, and the community, these chapters take us on a rewarding tour of the vibrant, productive range of Gestalt work today, always focusing on the first two decades of life. With each new topic and setting, fresh and creative ideas and interventions are offered and described, for use by practitioners of every school and method.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	8	(9)
Preface	9	(17)
Part I: Toward a Theoretical Framework
Lewinian Field Theory, Development, and Psychotherapy	26	(28)
Mark McConville
Enlarging the Field: African-American Adolescents in a Gestalt Context	54	(18)
Deborah Plummer
Darryl S. Tukufu
Late Adolescence: A Gestalt Model of Development, Crisis, and Brief Psychotherapy	72	(50)
Robert Ferguson
Charlie O'Neill
The Self in the Eye of the Father: A Gestalt Perspective on Fathering the Male Adolescent	122	(31)
Gordon Wheeler
A Field of Difference: A Gestalt Consideration of Learning Disabilities	153	(19)
Marlene Moss Blumenthal
Part II: Applications in the Field
Coming Out of the Shadows: Supporting the Development of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Adolescents	172	(21)
Allan Singer
A Gestalt Approach to the Treatment of Adolescent Eating Disorders	193	(21)
Beverly Blaney
John Smythe
Assertiveness and Conflict Resolution: An integrated Gestalt/Cognitive Behavioral Model for Working with Urban Adolescents	214	(39)
Iris G. Fodor
J. Christopher Collier
Shame and Support: Understanding an Adolescent's Family Field	253	(18)
Robert G. Lee
Anorexia and Contact	271	(15)
Nicole de Schrevel
Shame, Interiority and the Heart-Space of Skateboarding: A Clinical Tale	286	(13)
Mark McConville
Sex, Lies and Audio Tape: A Conversation about Adolescence with Sonia Nevis	299
Mark McConville
Mary Ann Kraus
Gordon Wheeler