Building 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 the embodied rather than verbal level. 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...
Building on developmental research that attests to the role of embodied, nonverbal language in the meanings children impute to their experiences, Seba...