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Moving Moments in Childhood provides a roadmap to truly understanding and embodying mental and physical health for children through the lens of dance/movement therapy.
This book explores fifty real therapeutic stories focusing on anxiety, pain, neurodivergence (including the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder) and learning differences, sibling dynamics, parenting challenges, and chronic illness in childhood. These individualized stories delve into the benefits of supporting the mind/body connection using dance/movement therapy, and each chapter includes diagnostic insights and hands-on strategies to use in therapy sessions, in schools, and at home. The book also includes research on etiology, diagnosis, therapeutic theory, and treatment methodology.
Moving Moments in Childhood highlights the transformative potential of therapeutic movement for a child's mental, physical, social, and psychological health and is an indispensable guide for mental health professionals, educators, and their clients.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Critical Areas in Children: Anxiety, Pain, and Neurodivergence 2. The Therapeutic Lens Explored: Critical Areas in Children - Anxiety and Pain 3. The Therapeutic Lens Explored: Critical Areas in Children - Neurodivergence and Asynchronicity 4. Everyday Life with Kids: Siblings, Identities, and Behaviors 5. The Therapeutic Lens Explored: Everyday Life with Kids 6. Integrated/Embodied Therapy: How This All Works 7. The Therapeutic Lens Explored: Perspective of Dance/Movement Therapy
About the author
Dr. Lori Baudino, PsyD, BC-DMT, has been a practicing clinician for over 20 years. Her work fuses integrative health into private practice, hospital care, parent education, and academic development.
Rachael Singer, BC-DMT, is an early childhood educator and dance/movement therapist working with children, families, and caregivers for 18 years in a variety of settings.
Summary
Moving Moments in Childhood provides a roadmap to truly understanding and embodying mental and physical health for children through the lens of dance/movement therapy.
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"Dancing from age 11 to 40, I recognized its physical benefits-stronger bones, and cardiovascular health. Dr. Baudino's book revealed how dance and movement have profound mental, emotional, and social benefits, shaping not just a healthy but a happy child."
Nigel Lythgoe, OBE, PhD
"This book by Dr. Lori Baudino is a testament to the transformative power of dance movement therapy in promoting psychological and physical health. Providing copious concrete examples in various contexts for a wide variety of neurodevelopmental, behavioral, and psychological issues, Dr. Baudino skillfully navigates the complexities of therapy. Emphasizing the importance of embodied, enactive forms of psychotherapy and expertise in reading what the body is trying to convey, she showcases how dance movement therapy can offer a non-threatening space for children to express themselves."
Dr. Adele Diamond, PhD, FRSC,FAFA, FAPS, FSEP,Sc.D (honoris causa), D.Phil. (honoris causa).
"Our minds are both embodied and relational and our wellbeing depends upon how we move through physical and social space. Lori Baudino has created a masterful journey for clinicians to explore the art and science of dance/movement therapy in powerful and illuminating detail. In this wonderful compendium of clinical wisdom and practical skills you will find wonderful examples of children and their parents that illustrate how to apply her creative principles of healing with the body in mind. This is a book to guide every child therapist, no matter their background, toward a more holistic and effective approach to supporting development in a healthy direction. Bravo!"
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. New York Times bestselling author The Developing Mind; IntraConnected; Mindsight; Brainstorm; and Aware. Co-author, Parenting from the Inside Out; The Whole Brain Child and The Power of Showing Up. executive director, Mindsight Institute clinical professor, UCLA School of Medicine
