Touching matters: an ethnographic study of adult-child relationships and the use of touch in residential child care

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Touching matters: an ethnographic study of adult-child relationships and the use of touch in residential child care

This thesis explores adult-child relationships and the use of touch in residential child care. The discourses surrounding touch in residential child care are distinctly polarised: touch is identified as being both fundamental to child development and also feared as a result of increasing risk aversi...

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Main Author:	Warwick, Lisa M.
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Touch Adult-Child Relationships Intimacy Residential Child Care
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41495/

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