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Building 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 together, they move toward enacted solutions to
relational crises, solutions that revise the child's sense of self
and ability to form new and productive relationships.
Building 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 together, they move toward enacted solutions to
relational crises, solutions that revise the child's sense of self
and ability to form new and productive relationships.
Presented in a question answer format, this book brings together
concepts and methods from psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and
developmental perspectives.
Thirty five percent of persons who are provided psychotherapy do
not benefit from treatment, or drop out of therapy prematurely
because they fail to establish a working alliance with the
therapist. To address this issue the volume presents a matrix of
concepts and research illustrating how traumatic experiences during
childhood result in the person developing rigid cognitive
functions, emotional expressions and behaviors, interfering with
the person participating constructively in relationships. Based on
this research, the psychotherapy conducted with an adult, an
adolescent, and a child are described to illustrate why and when
the therapist should engage and participate with the patient in
various body activities to stimulate particular meanings and
emotions that promote flexibility in the patient's cognition,
emotions, and behaviors. These cases illustrate how cultivating
this flexibility enables the patient to establish a working
alliance with the therapist and resolve past traumatic experiences.
The volume also describes a therapeutic model of techniques a
therapist should follow when adult and adolescent patients fail to
establish a working alliance, do not benefit from discussing and
free associating, and when child patients do not benefit from play
therapy.
This is a comprehensive textbook on child and adolescent
psychotherapy. It is suitable for students at graduate,
postgraduate and advanced undergraduate levels. It will also serve
to inform experienced practitioners about the latest developments
in the field. Bringing together concepts and methods from
psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive and developmental
perspectives, it provides an integrative conceptual model and
therapeutic approach for conducting psychotherapy with children and
adolescents troubled by a wide range of psychological and cognitive
difficulties, including ADHD and learning disorders. The integrated
model and rationale described seeks to stimulate students and
experienced clinicians alike to step out of the present-day,
conceptually segregated world of psychotherapy and into a world of
psychotherapy unbounded by narrow theoretical orientations.
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