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Ethics for Massage Therapists

Studying ethics is the core of building a successful business.  Ethics is just learning how to create successful relationships with others. You can market and advertise until you are broke, but the key to building successful client/therapist relationships involves what issues you bring to the table and understanding the issues a client brings to the table.  Learning about yourself and the therapeutic relationship will deepen your relationship with success.
The following articles are just the beginning of looking at the therapeutic relationship and the relationship with yourself.  You can get an in depth experience of these issues and more when you join

  I also write about ethical issues regularly on my blog.

Principles of Ethics

Self Assessment Questionnaire

Informed Consent

Dealing with Erections

Explorations in Ethics (My personal experiences)

Issues and Ethics: Insurance Billing or Medical Massage

Issues and Ethics: Using Aromatherapy, Selling Aromatherapy Products

Issues for Male Practitioners

How do you help?

See also: Psychology 101 for Massage therapists

Articles Online
Caretaking vs. Caregiving by Jack Blackburn, Trager practitioner. 
prescensingsource.com  - go to articles.  Highly recommended.

Enabling: The Dark Side
Of Being Helpful

(Part One and Two from Massage Therapy Journal)
As massage therapists, we are, by nature, caring people.
But can our caring go too far?
By Dianne Polseno

A holistic model for ethical practice (pdf) Suzanne Nixon Ecourse Massage therapy Journal

CE course, 119 (PDF)  Read how evaluating yourself is good for ethical practice - then earn CE hours. By Jean E. Middleswarth, MSW, LMBT, NCTMB

 

See also my recommended reading list.

See also the Psychology Section

 

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