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