Implementation of Gestalt Therapy in Counseling to Overcome Parental Divorce Trauma in Adolescents
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200814.037How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- gestalt therapy, trauma, divorce victim
- Abstract
Families have problems that must be faced sometimes can be resolved but some cannot be resolved that can result in divorce. Divorce hurts adolescents in the form of trauma. The feeling of trauma is an unresolved problem of the past. The trauma of divorce victims creates physiological, psychological and relational disorders. This is a literature review research. Data collection uses documentation techniques by collecting various kinds of literature and articles pertaining. Literature and articles included in this research were relevant with gestalt therapy in the context of adolescent with parental divorce trauma. The results indicate that gestalt therapy is effective to help adolescents overcome their trauma. Stages of gestalt therapy for traumatized teenage victims of divorce include: 1) Rebuilding trauma boundaries. Encourage the counselee to establish self-control and a sense of security here and now; 2) Building self-function, counselee awareness, and relaxation; 3) Bring back the trauma situation and review the place and time of occurrence; 4) Overcome negative counselee emotions with an empty chair; 5) Build intrapersonal relationships with family, friends and the wider environment; 6) Reconstruct the counselee’s basic beliefs and provide beliefs, positive thoughts and help find the counselee’s expectations.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Arif Fajar Romadhon AU - Sigit Sanyata PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/14 TI - Implementation of Gestalt Therapy in Counseling to Overcome Parental Divorce Trauma in Adolescents BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019 (ISGC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 171 EP - 177 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200814.037 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200814.037 ID - Romadhon2020 ER -