Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2

Many practitioners know intuitively that touch is necessary for healthy development, and research is increasingly unequivocal about its central importance in child development. Yet many children and young people in residential child care have experienced transgressive touch in the forms of physical...

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Main Author: Laura Steckley
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Language:English
Published: CELCIS 2010-03-01
Series:Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
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Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care
residential child care
young people in care
child development
title Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
title_full Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
title_fullStr Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
title_full_unstemmed Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
title_short Book reviews: Don't touch! The educational story of a panic. Heather Piper and Ian Stronach. London, Routledge, 2008. 167pp, ISBN 978-0-415-42008-2
title_sort book reviews don t touch the educational story of a panic heather piper and ian stronach london routledge 2008 167pp isbn 978 0 415 42008 2
topic residential child care
young people in care
child development
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