What techniques might you use when working with her?
Betty is a 68-year-old grandmother who was brought to therapy by both of her adult children. They forced her to see you after visiting home for the first time in 6 years. They reported that she had destroyed the house with a hoarding habit. They could barely walk into the house because it was covered in newspapers, clothes, and old, broken furniture that Betty doesn’t want to discard. Furthermore, Betty doesn’t leave the house or talk to friends anymore. After her husband died of lung cancer, she started isolating herself, and now she doesn’t really communicate with anyone besides a weekly phone call to her children. After talking to her, you wonder if she holds guilt for her husband’s death, because she was a cigarette smoker and he wasn’t. How would you conceptualize Betty’s problems from the perspective of a Gestalt therapist, and what techniques might you use when working with her?discussion topics will coincide with your readings from that week. Thus, your posts and responses should be informed by your readings. You should cite the textbook in your posts to receive full credit in the following format (author, year). Include full citations for sources obtained outside of class resources.
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