TOUCH IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Edward W. L. Smith, Pauline Rose Clance, and Suzanne Imes (Eds.)
Guilford Publications, 2001
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Evaluate a client’s desire to be touched
• Work with touch with survivors of sexual abuse
• Understand the role of touch in regression and reparenting approaches
• Communicate with clients about the use of touch, and manage “touch errors”
• Recognize that therapists who reported being sexually abused have a significantly higher use of touch in psychotherapy
• Learn when it is appropriate to use touch as a therapeutic method in psychotherapy
• Learn how successful touch was in repairing self-esteem, trust and a sense of patients’ need in a study of patients with a history of sexual or physical abuse
Edward W. L. Smith, Ph.D, A.B.P.P, is a professor of psychology and Coordinator of Clinical Training at Georgia Southern University.
Pauline Rose Clance, Ph.D., A.B.P.P, is a professor of psychology at Georgia State University, associate editor of the Gestalt Review, and on the editorial boards of PSYCHOTHERAPY: THEORY, RESEARCH, AND PRACTICE, and the JOURNAL OF COUPLES THERAPY.
Suzanne Imes, Ph.D., is a psychologist in independent practice in Atlanta, specializing in body-oriented Gestalt therapy. She is an adjunct assistant professor of psychology at Georgia State University.
8 CE credits; 237 pages
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