Skills in Gestalt counselling & psychotherapy / Phil Joyce & Charlotte Sills.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index.

Gestalt therapy in practice -- Preparing for the journey -- Phenomenology and field theory -- Awareness -- The therapeutic relationship -- Assessment and diagnosis -- Treatment considerations -- Strengthening support -- Shame -- Experimenting -- Contact style: moderations to contact and polarities -- Unfinished business -- Tranference and counter-transference -- Embodied process -- Working with dreams -- Self-supervision -- Ending the journey -- Managing challenging encounters -- Assessing and managing risk -- Resourcing the client -- Depression and anxiety -- Trauma part 1 : Assessing and stabilizing -- Trauma part 2 : Processing and integrating -- Gestalt practice in context -- Brief therapy -- The reflective practitioner : research in Gestalt -- Diversity, culture and ethics -- Spiritual counselling.