Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about
subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance
and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in
professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long
overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers just that,
weaving together scholarly evidence, research and clinical practice
from a wide range of perspectives encompassing philosophy,
theology, psychology, and anthropology to challenge assumptions
about the role of touch in the helping professions. The
contributors to the volume focus not only on the overarching roles
of gender, age, culture and life experience, but go beyond to
encompass canine-assisted therapy, touch deprivation, sacred
objects, as well as key ethical considerations. The prevailing lack
of dialogue, due to fear of contravening ethical boundaries, has
stood in the way of an open and responsible discussion on the use
of touch in therapy. Touch in the Helping Professions is a welcome
and much needed contribution to the field-a window onto a
fundamental need. This book is published in English. - Cet ouvrage
offre un ensemble de donnees probantes et de resultats cliniques a
l'appui du toucher dans le developpement physique et emotionnel. Il
est structure selon trois axes : la theorie sur le toucher; la
pratique du toucher dans un contexte de therapie, et les questions
ethiques. Il aborde la question du role du genre, de l'age, de la
culture et de l'experience de vie, des sujets comme la zootherapie,
la privation sensorielle, des objets sacres, et des considerations
d'ordre ethique. Les approches variees - philosophie, theologie,
psychologie, anthropologie - remettent en question les
presuppositions, offrent un contexte
historico-culturelprofessionnel, et font appel a des donnees
primaires. Les collaborateurs soutiennent que le toucher sain et
non sexuel n'est pas suffisamment enseigne dans le cadre de la
formation professionnelle. Cette absence de dialogue - engendree
par la crainte de depasser des bornes ethiques, fait en sorte
qu'une discussion ouverte et responsable sur l'utilisation du
toucher dans un cadre therapeutique ne peut avoir lieu, alors meme
qu'elle contribuerait aux balises theoriques de notre comprehension
de cet enjeu fondamental. Ce livre est publie en anglais.
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