Janet Courtney – The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy, Play Therapy

Janet Courtney – The Ethics of Touch in Child Psychotherapy, Play Therapy

The Ethics of Touch in Context

• Clinical concerns of touch in child psychotherapy and play therapy
• No touch policies-more harm than good?
• Types of touch: greeting, accidental, task-oriented, attentional, and more

Assessment for Psychosocial Experiences of Touch

• 4 Child Drawing Assessments
• Rating scale questionnaires
  • Parent’s perceptions of child’s touch experiences
  • Teacher Touch Observation Rating Scale for child

Interventions and Case Examples: Ethical dilemmas of Touch- Responses, Interventions and Boundary Setting

• Risk/benefit decision making
• Child hits/slaps therapist
• Inappropriate touching of therapist
• Child asks to be touched inappropriately
• Child asks for appropriate touch
• Specific populations
  • Infants-behavioral cue indications
  • Teenagers
  • Attachment Disorders
  • Autism/Sensory Processing Disorders
  • Sexually traumatized children
• 10+ Recommendations for working with abused children
• Engaging parents in problem touch occurrences

20+ Top Ethical Touch Best Practice Guidelines

• Practitioner Touch Awareness Questionnaire
• Informed Consent-for therapy approaches that use touch
• Informed Consent-Mandated Reporter of all forms of abuse
• Unethical Forms of Touch
• And many more…

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