Desexualizing Massage
Bystander Intervention can be remembered with this acronymn.
What is A.C.T.?
This is the most effective form of communication.
What is Assertive Communication?
A statement of a professional groups ethical principles is called this.
What is Code of Ethics?
This is based on the therapist's overall appearance, skill, good judgement and polite behavior to promote a sense of confidence, sincerity and compassion.
What is professionalism?
An activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional and physical health.
What is Self-Care?
Does not always involve physical touching. Involves crude, demeaning, and inappropriate jokes or comments; inappropriate flirting.
What is Sexual Impropriety?
A lack of outward communication that can lead to misunderstanding.
What is Passive Communication?
This is done to ensure privacy, safety and comfort.
What is draping?
A defense mechanism in which intolerable feelings, impulses, thoughts or traits are placed on others in order to deny these as part of themselves.
What is Projection?
During the consultation this helps determine the course of treatment and sets the tone of the therapeutic relationship and client.
What is the Client Interview?
This is defined as inappropriate physical contact that is not an overt sexual act.
What is Sexual Transgression?
Emphasized by speaking in a loud and demanding voice, maintaining intense eye contact and dominating or controlling others.
What is Aggressive Communication?
A Massage Therapist must receive this from the client after having fully disclosed policies and limitations that may affect the treatment.
What is Informed Consent?
The unconscious displacement of feelings from client to therapist
What is Transference?
The client will arrive 15 minutes early to their massage session in order to fill this out.
What is a Client Intake form?
This is considered overt physical sexual abuse.
What is Sexual Violation?
"That's fine with me, but don't be surprised if someone else get's mad" is an example of this.
What is Passive-Aggressive Communication?
Every Massage Therapist must work within this.
What is Scope of Practice?
When the therapist transfers feelings onto the client.
What is Counter-Transference?
During the client interview it is important to maintain this.
What is Eye Contact?
This is most visible in male clients and is a natural reaction caused by massage in overly sensitive areas. It may or may not need to be addressed.
What is Sexual Arousal?
Eye contact, tone of voice and body language are all examples of this.
What is Non Verbal Communication?
All Licensed Massage Therapist's must maintain their professional knowledge and competence through this every 2 years in the state of Illinois.
What is Continued Education?
The overlapping of professional and social roles and interactions between two people.
What is a Dual Relationship?
This is the key to success in a Massage Therapy Practice.
What is Effective Communication?