Therapeutic Care Blog

Articles, thoughts and publications produced by the Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care.

May 15, 2019

The role of emotions in therapeutic care

The role of emotions within human service work may at first glance appear to be intuitively obvious and incontestable. Indeed, Howe (2008) described the day of a human service worker as ‘suffused with emotional content’. The role of emotions is at the core of literature regarding relationship-based practice and the separation of feelings from professionalism …