Touch and relate: body experience among staff in habilitation services
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Touch and relate: body experience among staff in habilitation services
In habilitation centres staff meet children with different impairments, children who need extensive support and training while growing up. A prevailing biomedical view of the body in habilitation services is gradually becoming supplemented by a perspective on the body as constantly involved in experiencing and communicating, the latter involving also the bodies of the therapists. Investigating ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1748-2631
DOI: 10.3402/qhw.v9.21901