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| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
0045-3102 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
Journals |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Steckley, Laura |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Touch, physical restraint and therapeutic containment in residential child care |
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Journal |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
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British Journal of Social Work |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
Journal article |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
<p>British Journal of Social Work Vol. 42 no. 3 (Apr 2012), p. 537-555</p> <p>Available in library. See journal shelves.</p> <p>Available online.</p> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
The relationship between touch and physical restraint in residential child care is not well understood. Theories of therapeutic containment offer insight into the practice of physical restraint, the place of touch in residential child care practice and the impact of wider fears about touching between children and adults. Early experiences of containment necessarily involve touch through feeding, holding and other forms of soothing. Yet, for those who have not had ‘good enough’ early experiences of containment, their need for containment (including containing touch) may remain high. Physical restraint, a not uncommon practice in residential child care, simultaneously embodies extremes of both touch and containment. This paper, then, uses theories of therapeutic containment to illuminate the relationship between touch and physical restraint. It offers findings of a large-scale, qualitative study that explored the experiences of physical restraint of children, young people and staff in residential child care in Scotland. It provides evidence that staff experience anxieties related to touching young people, that some young people use physical restraint to meet needs for touch, that touch is used to contain distress and avoid restraint, and that touch-related fears may be limiting its ameliorating use, thus potentially increasing the use of physical restraint. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Social work |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Children - Residential care |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr069">http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcr069</a> |
| Link text |
Open e-book (Ruskin students only) |