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Title: Windows to Our Children: A Gestalt Approach to Children and Adolescents Author: Violet Oaklander Pages: ~336 pages Reading Time: ~10 hrs Paper Time: ~2 hrs (1–2 pages) Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate Category: Seminal or Historically Significant Theories Total CE’s: 12 APT Non-Contact CE’s (min 36 quiz questions) Price: $120 The book is NOT included. 🧠 Course Description This self-paced non-contact CE course explores Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking Gestalt approach to working with children and adolescents. In Windows to Our Children, Oaklander illuminates how play, art, sandtray, movement, and sensory experiences become portals to the child’s emotional world. Her integrative methods combine the humanistic spirit of Gestalt therapy with the creativity of play and expressive modalities, emphasizing contact, awareness, and authenticity as the foundation for healing. Through vivid case examples and therapeutic dialogue, readers witness how Gestalt principles come to life in the playroom. Oaklander invites clinicians to view the child not as a set of behaviors or diagnoses, but as a whole, relational being seeking genuine connection. Participants will explore how the Gestalt concepts of awareness, choice, and responsibility empower children to reclaim a sense of agency, and how therapist authenticity can model self-acceptance and emotional presence. ***All APT Non-Contact CE Self-Paced Book Studies must be completed within 60 days of registration to receive a certificate.
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