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The role of physical contact in childcare
Author(s) -
WARD ADRIAN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1990.tb00371.x
Subject(s) - physical abuse , psychology , developmental psychology , sexual abuse , child abuse , social psychology , medicine , human factors and ergonomics , environmental health , poison control
SUMMARY. There is a risk that recent concern over child sexual abuse will inhibit those working with children from having appropriate physical contact with the children. The author discusses the importance of touch in children's experience, outlines some dilemmas facing the childcare worker, and suggests a number of specific and general ways in which workers may resolve these difficulties, with special reference to residential childcare