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Individual and Family Growth: A Gestalt Approach
Author(s) -
KAPLAN MARVIN L.,
KAPLAN NETTA R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1978.00195.x
Subject(s) - gestalt psychology , psychology , gestalt therapy , experiential learning , affect (linguistics) , psychotherapist , family therapy , developmental psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , communication , perception , neuroscience , pedagogy
Gestalt therapy is described as a comprehensive framework of theory and techniques for experiential family therapy. Like other experientially oriented therapies, it is systems‐oriented, immediate‐experience‐oriented, and affect‐oriented. Unlike others, this method regards the client system's emergent processes as the central focus, and it emphasizes that growth occurs as the family and its members are helped to greater self‐awareness and responsibility for their own functioning.