Boundaries
Personal comfort zones that help a person maintain a sense of comfort and safety.
What are boundaries?
The therapist keeps all personal information, and health records regarding the client, including the fact of being a client, private except with permission from the client or when required by law.
What is confidentiality?
A set of moral principles that governs a person's choice of action.
What is ethics?
This is a practitioner-client relationship that is client-centered, in which all activities of the relationship are directed to benefit and enhance the client’s well-being.
What is a therapeutic relationship?
Personal, professional, physical, emotional, and sexual. Just to name a few.
What are different types of boundaries?
More authority is held by the person on one side of the relationship, whereas the other person is in a more vulnerable or submissive role.
What is power differential?
Someone who has completed a course of study to gain knowledge in a specific field of practice.
What is a professional?
The client has to sign this before the therapist confers with other healthcare providers concerning the client.
What is a medical release form?
Cultural and ethnic influences, the environment that you were raised in, your family, the school you attended, and the neighborhood that you lived in.
What are personal boundaries?
There might be an unconscious tendency for the client to project attributes of someone else from a former relationship. It is an unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another.
What is transference?
This is the primary means of communication in massage therapy.
What is touch?
It involves misperceptions that the client might have toward the therapist. It might be positive or negative.
What is transference?
Predetermined practices that protect the safety of the client and the therapist.
What are professional boundaries?
Thinking excessively about a client between sessions, having strong emotional feelings towards the client, and fantasizing about the client.
What is countertransference?
To practice good ethics is to be concerned about the welfare of whom?
What are your client and yourself?
This occurs when the practitioner personalizes the relationship.
What is countertransference?
The tone of your voice, the words that you use. Don’t use medical terminology that the client doesn’t understand.
What are communication skills or language?
This refers to any situation where multiple roles exist between a therapist and a client.
What is a dual relationship?
Have knowledge of and always stay within the limitations of your _______.
What is the scope of practice?
Another type of this is when we barter. Work barter can become difficult if the quality of work does not meet the expectations of the therapist or there seems to be an inequitable number of hours of work in exchange for a one-hour massage.
What is another type of dual relationship?