Touch in the Helping Professions: Research, Practice, and Ethics
| dc.contributor.author | Rovers, Martin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Malette, Judith | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guirguis-Younger, Manal | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-07T19:35:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-07T19:35:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | Acknowledgements (xi) ● INTRODUCTION ● Exploring touch (1) ● Outline of the Book (6) ● PART I THE THEORY OF TOUCH ● CHAPTER I ● Touch Deprivation and Counselling as Healing Touch (13) What Is touch? (14) Touch Deprivation (15) Touch Deprivation and Attachment (18) Counselling as Healing Touch (21) Healing Touch in Couple Counselling (23) Case Study 1 (25) Case Study 2 (26) Conclusion (27) CHAPTER II ● Thinking About Touch (33) Hume on Thinking (34) Descartes: Touch as Confused Thinking (36) What Is Touch? (39) Individuating Touch (40) Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Touch (43) Conclusion (49) CHAPTER III ● Contributions of Sensory Anthropology and Durand’s Anthropology to the Symbolic Study of Touch and the Understanding of Boundaries in Psychotherapy (51) The Contributions of Sensory Anthropology (52) Schopenhauer’s Parable of the Porcupines (54) The Contributions of Durand’s Anthropology of the Imaginary (57) The Mythical World of the Mystical Type (58) The Mythical World of the Heroic Type (59) The Mythical World of the Synthetic Type (59) Defining Boundaries in Human Life and in the Context of Psychotherapy (61) Application of Durand’s Theory to the Understanding of Boundaries (62) Conclusion (64) CHAPTER IV ● Healing and the Forbidden Touch: A Reflection on Selected Scripture Stories (69) Introduction: On the Meaning of Touch (69) From Sight to Touch (70) To Touch or Not to Touch? (72) Touching Jesus and the Hemorrhaging Woman (Mk 5: 25–34) (73) Is Touch a Gender Issue? (74) Does Touching Contribute to Healing? (75) Do Not Touch Me: Forbidden Touch (Jn 20: 11–18) (76) Closeness and Distance: Who Is Allowed to Touch? (77) The Impossibility of Touch and Transgressive Touch (78) Conclusion (79) PART II ● THE PRACTICE OF TOUCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY ● CHAPTER V ● The Intervention of Touch in Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment (85) Introduction to Touch in Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment (85) Exploring Theory and Research: A Rationale for Touch in Trauma Therapy (86) The Importance of the Nervous System in Emotional Regulation and Trauma Treatment (88) Potential Impact of Touch on Clients (90) Types of Touch in Psychotherapy (93) Guidelines for Safe and Effective Touch in Psychotherapy (95) Case Example of Using Touch/Physical Contact with a Teenage Client (97) Conclusion (101) CHAPTER VI ● A Puppy’s Touch: Destressing with Dogs in a University Environment (107) Introduction (107) Initial Research (109) Biophilia Hypothesis (110) Social Support Hypothesis (111) Context of the Research (113) Methodology (114) Findings (114) 1. Energy of the Dogs (117) 2. Distraction from Current Stress (117) 3. Touch or Contact with the Dogs (117) 4. Unconditional Love and Acceptance (118) 5. Reminder of Home or Pet (118) Discussion (118) Conclusion (122) CHAPTER VII ● Inter-Partner Touch in Couple Counselling: Theory and Emerging Practice (125) What is Touch? (125) Defining Touch (125) Psychobiological Function of Touch (126) What is the Importance of Touch for Psychological Well-Being? (127) Touch Promotes Human Development (127) Touch Provides Attachment Security (128) Touch for Comfort and Well-Being (130) Touch in Times of Distress (131) Touch Leads to Spiritual Health, Experience, and Connection (132) Touch in Couple Counselling (132) Touch in Today’s Couple Counselling (133) A Spirituality for Inter-Partner Touch (134) An Emerging Model for Touch in Couple Counselling (135) Look, Touch, Talk, Hug (136) Twenty-Second Hug (138) Moving Forward (139) What Implications Does Touch Have for Couple Counselling? (139) Ethical Considerations (140) Need for Future Research (140) ●PART III ● THE PRACTICE OF TOUCH IN A SPECTRUM OF PRACTICE ● CHAPTER VIII ● The Practice of the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care (147) Literature Review (148) A Place for the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care (151) Ethics of the Laying on of Hands in Islamic Spiritual Care (154) Ethics of the Tawhid Principle (155) Ethics of Physical and Spiritual Purification (156) Ethics of Providing Proper Care (156) Conclusion (157) CHAPTER IX ● An Angel in My Pocket: Touch, Sacred Objects, and Spiritual Coping (161) Touch in Hospital Chaplaincy (161) Spiritual Coping (162) Locus of Control (163) The Spiritual Dimension of Touch (164) Objects of Spiritual Significance (164) The Function of the Sacralized Object (166) Focuses the Mind (167) Tool of Connection (167) Source of Emotional Support (167) Evolution of the Sacred Object (170) Sacralized Objects in Meaning-Making (172) Challenges with the Research (173) Conclusion (173) CHAPTER X ● Touch(ed) in Palliative Care Nursing: Moving with/in An Uncertain Practice (177) Touch in Nursing: An Aesthetic and Embodied Practice (179) (In)visible and (Dis)embodied Practices of Touch in Nursing (180) At the Margins of Care: Personal and Professional Boundaries Affecting Touch (182) To Touch and Be Touched: Cultivating Capacity (183) Mindfulness (183) Attuning Mind, Body, and Emotions (184) Moving with Uncertainty and Vulnerability: Flowing of Frozen Waters? (184) Storytelling (186) Going Slow to Know: Storying Meaning (186) Evoking the Body: Storying Practices of Touch (186) Cultivating a Community of Practice: Storying Relations (187) Conclusion (188) Appendix A: With Mary (189) Appendix B: With Jerry (190) Appendix C: With Jake and Family (190) CHAPTER XI ● Touch in Supervision (195) A Model for Supervising Touch (198) Touch Between Supervisor and Supervisee (202) Recommendations (205) Conclusion (206) PART IV ● THE ETHICS OF TOUCH IN THE HELPING RELATIONSHIPS AND CONCLUSION ● CHAPTER XII ● The Ethics of Touch in the Helping Relationships (213) A Question of Personal Boundaries (214) Therapeutic or Not? (214) Current Context (216) What Professional Ethics Say (216) The Benefits of Touch in the Helping Relationships (217) How to Decide to Touch or not to Touch? (218) Who Touches? (218) Who Is Touched? (222) Contraindications (223)In What Context Does Touch in the Helping Relationships Occur? (224) For a Better Practice of Touch in the Helping Relationships (226) Guidelines and Recommendations (226) Training, Supervision and Consultation (228) CONCLUSION Issues of Touch: An Overall View and Integration (237) Touch Helps Us Thrive (238) Touching You; Touching Me; Touching Puppies; Touching in the Helping Relationships (239) Contracting Touch in the Helping Relationships (242) Clients Who Want to Touch or Be Touched (243) The Ethics of Touch (244) What Touch Might Mean Within a Therapeutic Relationship (245) Touch as Presented Within Academic Education and Training (246) Contributors (249) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780776627557 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://press.uottawa.ca/touch-in-the-helping-professions.html | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37596 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-21863 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Health and Society | en_US |
| dc.subject | Helping Professions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Health Care | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social Services | en_US |
| dc.title | Touch in the Helping Professions: Research, Practice, and Ethics | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
