The Basics
A set of guidelines that delineates the standars of behavior for the members of a group or profession
What is code of ethics?
The process of helping people who do not have power gain it so they can improve their personal or professional circumstances
Requires by municipalities for individuals or businesses that sell products
What is business privilege license?
A limit set to inform others where one's personal space ends and public space begins
What is boundary?
Touch by the practitioner during the treatment that is not in any way erotic or sexual for either the practitioner or the client
What is desexualized touch?
What a person finds desirable
What are values?
The capacity to influence the behavior or others and to resist their influence on oneself
What is power?
A process in which a person has completed a formalized program of study, and has passed one or more tests demonstrating competency in the area of study
What is certification?
The atmosphere or energetic sense of the therapeutic relationship
What is emotional environment?
According to traditional Japanese bodywork, the energy or force that gives and maintains life, and also is the connection between organisms and all creation
What is Ki?
A drive within a person that motivates them to arrive at work on time every day, do their best at all times, and cooperate with colleagues and supervisors
What is work ethic?
Occures when, in a relationship, one party has greater control, or power over the other
What is power difference?
The ability to perform a specific task, action or function successfully
What is competency?
A situation in which roles and responsibilities in dual or multiple relationships are combined
What is role blending?
A phenomenon that can happen in the bodywork profession in which a practitioner who has been working for certain period of time no longer wants to touch their clients
What is touch overload?
The behaviors and attitudes that a culture, community organization, or profession determines best reflects its goals and desires
What are group ethics?
Having the means within ourselves or overcome doubts and insecurities rather then relying on an external support system
What is self-empowered?
The process by which clients have been fully informed about what to expect during the bodywork treatment
What is informed consent?
A defense strategy that bodywork practitioners emply when they have unresolved issues from their past have perceptions about someone from their personal history, or have feelings from their past and are transferring these feelings and thoughts into a client
What is countertransference?
Specialized nerve endings that respond to various types of stimulation
What are sensory receptors?
Situations that require considering information that requires an opinion, a response, or an action in a situation that challenges a person's ethics
What are ethical dilemmas?
The position of an individual in relation to another or or others; a socially valued quality that a person carries with themself in different situations, where power and dominance are likely to be seen as a personality trait.
What is status?
A license needed by people who provide service, such as attorneys, chiropractors, and bodywork practitioners
What is occupational license?
A relationship in which one set of roles completely ends before the beginning of a new set of roles?
What is sequential relationship?
Areas of the brain that store memories of past somatic sensory experiences so people can compare current sensations with previous sensation
What are somatosensory association areas?