Touch, Physical Restraint and Therapeutic Containment in Residential Child Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10895643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Steckley (0000-0001-6021-2302, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 537-555 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcr069 |
| OpenAlex | W2147707810 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 15 |
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.
Containment (computer programming) · Distress · Limiting · Psychotherapist · Residential care · Child Abuse and Trauma · Engineering · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
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Trampolines and Minefields
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Staff actions as risk factors for victimization
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Observing Organisations
Conducting research with young children
Ethical issues, research and vulnerability
Names Can Never Hurt Me?”
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Touch’ in educational and child care settings
Reflective Practice in Contemporary Child-care Social Work
Qualitative Data Analysis
Physical Restraint in Residential Childcare
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |