Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy

Download or read book Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy written by Janet A. Courtney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.