New York Zero-to-Three Book Party Event
Time:
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6:30- 8:00 PM
Location:
Hybird event offered in-person at the Bank Street College Auditorium in New York City and online on Zoom.
Course Description:
Bridging Soma and Psyche: Celebrating three new books that bridge infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH), sensory processing and medical illness to assist parents and professionals caring for young children.
Join us and meet the authors of three important new additions to literature in the 0-5 field that will be celebrated at a NYZTT sponsored book party. Long-time NYZTT board member Dr. Suzi Tortora along with Dr. Miri Keren, have published a new book entitled Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress; Dr Gilbert Foley NYZTT advisory board member & Susan A. Stallings-Sahler, will release the second edition of Sensory Integration and Self-Regulation in Infants and Toddlers: Helping Very Young Children Interact with Their Environment; Linda Garofallou and Dr. Louisa Silva will publish, An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory & Behavioral Problems: Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents & Clinicians. Come learn about these topics as we hear from the authors themselves while celebrating their accomplishments!
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Book Title: Dance/Movement Therapy for Infants and Young Children with Medical Illness: Treating Somatic and Psychic Distress
Authors: Dr. Suzi Tortora & Dr. Miri Keren
Summary: This book supports the baby and family through this vulnerable time, bridging infant mental health; psychiatry; nonverbal movement analysis; and dance/movement psychotherapy. It explains how to help babies voice their experiences using their nonverbal actions to create an embodied coherent narrative. Through an innovative lens the psychic and somatic aspects of medical illness are addressed, providing a window into the young pediatric patient’s emotional “felt-story” within the context of treating the whole family system.
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Book Title: Linking Sensory Integration and Mental Health: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Infants and Young Children
Authors: Dr Susan A. Stallings-Sahler and Dr. Gilbert M. Foley
Summary: This book builds bridges among ideas, disciplines, interventions, professionals and caregivers. The Occupational Therapy/sensory integration (SI) and Psychology/infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) perspectives are paralleled and integrated to illuminate linkages between sensation and mentation -soma and psyche. This book synthesizes theory, empirical evidence and clinical insights into practical SI/IECMH applications for clinic, classroom and daily life of infants and young children with sensory processing and mental health risks and disorders.
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Title: An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory & Behavioral Problems: Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents & Clinicians
Authors: Linda Garofallou, MS, IMHS E®III & Louisa Silva, MD, MPH
Summary: This book offers a unique perspective on the critical role of a parent’s touch in organizing sensory experience and ultimately, in behavior and self-regulation itself. Parents learn an effective 15-minute touch treatment along with a new ‘sensory language’ to tailor their touch to their child’s specific responses. Included is a wealth of techniques, resources and the support of a year-long series of weekly letters that encourage parents with real-time guidance along the way.
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This workshop is free for NYZTT members and $15 for non-members. If you're not already, you can become a NYZTT member for $60 when you register for this workshop. Membership enables you to attend this and all workshops at no charge.
About the Instructors
Suzi Tortora Ed.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC, NCC, is the Founder/Director of Dancing Dialogue, a private creative arts psychotherapy practice in Cold Spring, NY and NYC, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma; medical illness; and adult chronic pain. She is the International Medical Creative Arts Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation, having created in 2003, and is the senior dance/movement therapist for Integrative Medicine Service, MSK Kids, NYC. She teaches & holds faculty positions nationally and internationally and offers an International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals. She has published extensively and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used widely in DMT training.
Miri Keren, M.D., was the founder and past director of the community-based infant mental health unit, affiliated to Geha Mental Health Center in Petah-Tiqwa (1996-2020). She implemented and supervised 6 units of Infant Psychiatry across Israel. She is in the position of Clinical and Research Consultant at the Bar Ilan University Affiliated University Hospital, at the Beit Izi Shapira Center for disabled infants and toddlers, and at the FTT unit of the Schneider Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Keren served as President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) in the years 2012-2016, and received the WAIMH Leibovici Award in June 2021.
Susan A. Stallings-Sahler, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA, is an occupational therapist and educational psychologist, and director of Developmental Research and Educational Consultants, LLC in the Tampa Bay Area. She served as professor and project coordinator at Gannon University’s (FL) Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program and held professorships at Rush and Brenau Universities. Dr. Stallings-Sahler was professor and founding OT program director at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She completed advanced postgraduate training at USC, studying with the late Dr Jean Ayres. She has taught certification courses on sensory integration nationally and internationally. She is author of Screening Assessment of Sensory Integration (SASI) and over 40 scholarly articles and chapters. Dr. Stallings-Sahler is a fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Association.
Gilbert M. Foley, Ed.D., IMH-E serves as consulting clinical psychologist at the New York Center for Child Development (NYCCD) and is clinical co- director of the New York City Early Childhood Mental Health Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC). He is a core faculty member of the Psychodynamic Institute for Clinical Social Work and is a retired tenured faculty member in school-clinical child psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. He completed a visiting fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center and served as chief psychologist in pediatrics at the Medical College of Pennsylvania (Drexel). Dr. Foley writes extensively and teaches and lectures widely.
Linda Garofallou, QST Therapist and adjunct faculty at the Center for Autism & Early Childhood Mental Health, Montclair State University, where she runs a grant program providing parent trainings in Qigong Sensory Treatment and teaches the Tactile & Sensory Foundations of Child Development. She has developed a wide range of community pediatric sensory programs for at-risk children & families, including 14 years at Children’s Hospital of NJ Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Linda holds a Master’s degree in physiology, a Level III Specialist Endorsement in Infant Mental Health®, licensed in the Shanker Method® of Self-Reg and faculty trained in Brazelton’s Touchpoints.
Louisa Silva, (1954-2018) was a physician integrating Western and Chinese medicine with public health. She created the Qigong Sensory Treatment and was the lead researcher for 20 university-based research studies, including a large federally funded 3-year study confirming the effectiveness of QST in the treatment of autism. Dr. Silva received her medical degree from UCLA in 1979, her Chinese medicine training in 1989 and her MPH in 2003. She was a visiting professor at the Teaching Research Institute, Western Oregon University. Dr. Silva was the founder of the Qigong Sensory Training Institute and also founded the Guadalupe Clinic, a nonprofit community health clinic in Salem, OR.
Registration:
Registration is available here.