Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2

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Abstract

Many practitioners know intuitively that touch is necessary for healthy development, and research is increasingly unequivocal about its central importance in child development. Yet many children and young people in residential child care have experienced transgressive touch in the forms of physical and/ or sexual abuse, or have experienced touch deprivation (or both). This complicates what might be seen as 'natural' integration of touch into day-to-day care practices.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages2
JournalScottish Journal of Residential Child Care
Volume9
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2010

Keywords

  • residential child care
  • young people in care
  • child development

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