Publications

Textbook/Manual:

Synthesis of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Therapeutic Community Treatment for Addiction/Mental Health Troubled Clients: A Gestalt Therapy Perspective

This evidence based acclaimed text provides every clinician with an in-depth synthesized exploration for a Residential Addiction Treatment setting. The reader will become acquainted with DBT, Gestalt, Affect, and Attachment theories. The book includes a section containing many relevant worksheets for the treatment team, clients, and groups alike.

Ebooks:

Addiction Resistance Forgiveness And Treatment  

The seven chapters of this popular eBook provide a stunning glimpse of how a positive addiction treatment approach using a Gestalt perspective can transform an individual's life to freedom. This eBook explains the process of contributing familiy of origin factors prio to the onset of substance abuse to full addiction and recovery

Multi-Phasic Transformation Process

An internationally published and translated version of this eBook provides a detailed and unique treatment progression for addictions from onset to recovery. Included illustrative charts of the Gestalt Experience Cycle and clinical examples provide all clinicians with a process and profound perspective of a holistic and humanistic addiction treatment from a Gestalt Therapy perspective.

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Additional Publications
MATZKO, H. (1991), An ACOA substance abuse counselor: Family of origin influences on personal growth and therapeutic effectiveness. In: Children of Chemically Dependent Parents, ed. T. M. Rivinus New York: Brunner/Mazel, pp. 288-310.

­­__________ (1993), Gestalt Therapy is Ideally suited to Addiction Treatment in The Addiction Letter. Vol. 9, No.11.

__________ (1997), A gestalt Therapy Treatment Approach for Addictions: "Multiphasic Transformation Process" in Gestalt Review 1/1. Pp.34-55.