Who Dat?
She developed the application of Gestalt theory into Gestalt Play Therapy
Who is Violet Oaklander?
Gestalt play therapists focus on helping clients establish and maintain this to facilitate integration
What is contact?
This intervention involves asking the child to have parts of their creation speak to each other
What is creating/facilitating a dialogue?
This is the last phase of processing through anger
What is exploration and uncovering of anger?
This is Violet Oaklander's favorite medium of artistic expression and creation
What is clay?
Oaklander studied the writings of these two Play Therapy pioneers in developing her approach
Who are Clark Moustakas and Virginia Axline?
Gestalt play therapists pay critical attention to maintaining contact through a focus on these kinds of experiences
What is the sensory experience?
This Gestalt intervention involves requesting the child repeat an action or movement with greater expression
What is exaggeration?
The second stage of Gestalt Play Therapy focuses on strengthening this
What is the self?
This processing technique involves asking a child what was going on before the character reached this point of the story play
What is hypothesizing antecedents?
He rejected psychoanalytical theory to develop a new therapeutic approach focused on making contact in the here-and-now with unintegrated parts of the self
Who is Fritz Perls?
Gestalt therapists believe integration of self can only occur in this temporal space
What is the here-and-now?
This therapeutic intervention involves asking children to pretend to be the people, experiences, and feelings they struggle with
What is enactment?
This fourth stage of Gestalt Play Therapy involves cultivating this skill for treating oneself kindly
What is Self-Nurturing or Self-Compassion?
This involves identifying a component in a child's creation and having the child speak to it or for it
What is facilitating a dialgoue?
She authored the handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy
Who is Rinda Blom?
Gestalt Play Therapists recognize splits between self often fall into these extremes and need to be theraeputically integrated
What are polarities?
This skill involves utilizing projective materials for a child to then develop a therapeutic narrative
What is therapeutic storytelling?
In the first stage of Gestalt Play Therapy the therapist works to establish this type of relationship
What is egalitarian or authentic?
An iconic intervention of Oaklander involves having the client draw themselves as one of these plants
What is a rosebush?
They described the neurobiological mechanisms by which Play Therapy resolves trauma
Who are Badenoch and Kestly?
Gestalt Play Therapist revere this internal mechanism as a source or strength and support in times of distress?
What is imagination?
This skill is only used as necessary in Gestalt Play Therapy to promote safety of the client and therapist
What is limit-setting/boundary setting?
This is the first phase of processing through anger
What is normalization of anger?
Neurobiologically, this occurs when a child's negative memory is triggered while inside a therapeutically safe environment
What is a disconfirming experience?