Title
College Student Affection Issues in Child and Family Focused Community Service-learning Settings
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 1999
Abstract
This article offers an examination of the ways in which college students manage and cope with client displays of physical or emotional affection toward them during their work in child- or farnily-related service learning placements. This paper also offers suggestions for assisting college students who may encounter displays of affection during their work with children. In order to explore this topic, a convenience sample of 77 college student service learning journals were collected and content-analyzed for common or recurrent themes across the journals. Analyses of the journals revealed that both men and women struggle to find appropriate responses to client affection.
Recommended Citation
Dunlap, Michelle R. and Coughlin, Brian, "College Student Affection Issues in Child and Family Focused Community Service-learning Settings" (1999). Human Development Faculty Publications. 7.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/humdevfacpub/7
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Originally printed in Academic Exchange, Winter, 1999, p. 28-34