ABSTRACT

As I write this, it has been twenty-eight years since my first book, Windows To Our Children, was published, but actually nothing much has changed. Oh sure, there have been many technological advances (I wrote Windows on a tiny Hermes portable typewriter and now have a fancy computer) and so much has happened in the world in these almost thirty years. But nothing much in terms of what children need has changed. They still suffer from child abuse and molestation, divorce, loss and separation and much, much more. Those of us who work with children are still desperate for tools to help children survive, cope and become whole enough to live in our stressful society. In these years I have continued to apply my work and have found that the Gestalt therapy approach to children and adolescents is still effective.