Violet Oaklander

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Violet Solomon Oakland (born April 1927 ) is an American Gestalt therapist , special and remedial teacher , as children, youth, family and marriage counselor in the Greater Los Angeles worked.

Life

Violet Oaklander was the daughter of the Russian-Jewish emigrants Mollie Filler Solomon and Joseph Solomon. She spent her childhood with two big brothers in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Her older brother died in World War II . Oaklander was badly burned from a pot of boiling water when he was five years old. She was saved by skin grafts , but had to be hospitalized for a long time.

She married Harold Oaklander and they have three children. Her son Michael became terminally ill and died after a year and a half of illness at the age of fourteen.

Oaklander began and successfully graduated as a teacher during their marriage. She worked for three years in a mainstream school context and six years with children with behavioral disorders in a special school program. At the same time, she obtained a diploma in “Special and Curative Education for Children with Emotional Disorders and Learning Disabilities”, for which she received a scholarship from the United States Office of Education .

Oaklander earned a diploma in marriage, family, and child counseling and a doctorate in psychology ( Ph.D. ). She attended advanced training courses in Gestalt therapy and was a member of the Gestalt Therapy Institute in Los Angeles. Her revised habilitation thesis was published in the USA in 1978 under the title Windows to Our Children and in 1989 in Germany. In her second book from 2006 she also documents and explains her play and gestalt therapy work with children and adolescents.

Until she was 73, she ran a state-approved private practice for marriage, family and child therapy in Hermosa Beach , where she also offered advanced training. In California , she also held various consulting and teaching positions - one of which was for life.

In 2003 the Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation (VSOF) was founded.

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  • Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents (US title: Windows to Our Children ), 1989
  • Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and young people (US title: Hidden treasure. A map to the child's inner self ), 2006

References

  1. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and young people Stuttgart J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben GmbH, p. 10
  2. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents, Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition, p. 392; P. 335 and Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and young people Stuttgart J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben GmbH, P. 137
  3. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world by Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and young people Stuttgart J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben GmbH, p. 137
  4. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition, p. 22 and Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and adolescents Stuttgart JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Successor GmbH, p. 28; P. 227
  5. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents, Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition, p. 394; P. 396; P. 398
  6. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition (US title: Windows to Our Children), p. 5; P. 335; P. 396 as well as Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and young people Stuttgart JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben GmbH (US title: Hidden treasure. A map to the child's inner self), P. 5
  7. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents, Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition, p. 398
  8. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and young people Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition (US title: Windows to Our Children), p. 394
  9. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents, Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition, p. 398
  10. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition (US title: Windows to Our Children), p. 396
  11. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (1989): Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents, Stuttgart Klett-Cotta 5th edition, p. 398
  12. ↑ Oaklander, Violet (2006): Hidden treasures lift paths into the inner world of children and young people Stuttgart J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachhaben GmbH, p. 10
  13. ^ Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation. Retrieved June 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Oaklander, Violet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oaklander, Violet Solomon (full name); Children, Windows to Our
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gestalt therapist, special and curative education
DATE OF BIRTH April 1927