ABSTRACT
Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives. Chapters address issues around appropriate and sensitive therapist-initiated touch, therapeutic approaches that use touch as an intervention in child treatment, and both positive and challenging forms of touch that are initiated by children. In these pages, professionals and students alike will find valuable information on ways to address potential ethical dilemmas, including defining boundaries, working with parents and guardians, documentation, consent forms, cultural considerations, countertransference, and much more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Overview and the Ethical Implications of Touch
part II|56 pages
Play Therapy Models That Use Touch as an Intervention
chapter 3|13 pages
The Neurobiology of Touch
chapter 4|15 pages
FirstPlay® Infant Massage Storytelling
part III|73 pages
Healing Children Traumatized by Touch
chapter 8|14 pages
Hands Are Not for Hitting
chapter 10|15 pages
Healing Adolescent Trauma
chapter 11|13 pages
The Emotion of Touch
part IV|52 pages
Innovations and the Utilization of Touch with Children
chapter 12|13 pages
The Role of Touch in Infant Mental Health
part V|16 pages
Toward the Development ofCore Competencies Supporting the Ethics of Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy