Touch in the Helping Professions

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To all the authors who have worked hard to put their ideas and research on paper and make this edited book real. This book is rich in the variety of theoretical approaches and chapters on touch in the helping relationships, and in the many places and ways touch is a part of the healing process.To Jane Chambers, MA, for editing and coordinating the book and making it ready for the publisher.We three editors wish to express appreciation to Saint Paul University for their publishing grant for this book, for their ongoing support for our research, conferences, and writing, and especially to the professors and students in the Faculty of Human Sciences, where touch, as a dimension of counselling and spiritual care, is taught and practiced every day.