Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors

Name: Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Child Therapy in the Great OutdoorsA Relational View\nAuthor(s): Sebastiano Santostefano\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138157996, 978-1138157996\nSynopsis\nBuilding on relational conceptualizations of enactment and on developmental research that attests to the role of embodied, nonverbal language in the meanings children impute to their experiences, Sebastiano Santostefano offers this compelling demonstration of effective child therapy conducted in the great outdoors. Specifically, he argues that, for the child, traumatic life-metaphors should be resolved at an embodied rather than an exclusively verbal level; they should be resolved, that is, as they are enacted between child and therapist. To this end, child and therapist must take advantage of all the indoor and outdoor environments available to them. As they take therapy to nontraditional places, relying on the nonverbal vocabulary they have constructed to.