Alabama Liscensure Requirements
Alabama State Law
Key Terms
Psychological Concepts
Miscellaneous
100
The state we will get a license from upon passing the National Certification Exam.
What is Alabama?
100
Per the law, this is defined as a person liscensed who practices or administers massage therapy or touch therapy modalities to a patron for compensation.
What is a Massage Therapist?
100
This is the study of moral principles and appropriate conduct.
What is Ethics?
100
This is the kind of relationship we all have with our clients when performing massage therapy sessions.
What is a Therapeutic Relationship?
100
When a massage therapist performs spinal adjustments or counseling without appropriate training they are doing this.
What is Practicing Beyond Their Scope of Practice?
200
The massage therapist license requirements are a minimum of this many hours to get licensure in Alabama
What is 650 hours?
200
A massage therapist may not perform massage therapy, whether or not for compensation, for this type of business.
What is a sexually oriented business?
200
These are tangible and intangible convictions that an individual considers of intrinsic worth. They are based upon beliefs and attitudes and involve what is desirable rather than what is right and correct.
What are Values?
200
This is the term that means every action that the practitioner takes is in the service of the client's needs and not the practitioner's needs.
What is Client-Centered?
200
When you begin dating a client you are currently working with or your client is also your accountant you are engaging in this type of relationship.
What is a Dual Relationship?
300
This is how much personal liability insurance that you have to provide proof of for licensure in Alabama
What is $1,000,000?
300
This is the number of board members appointed by the Governor to oversee the Alabama Board of Massage Therapy.
What are seven?
300
These comprise an individual's code of action and enable a person to behave with integrity. The person with these modifies his/her behavior so that each action arises from a deeply held sense of self.
What are Principles?
300
This is when a client recreates in the current helping relationship where he is vulnerable, the same complex elements of similiar relationships he has had in the past and this is passed onto the therapist.
What is Transference?
300
The two major priinciples involved in ethical dilemmas are these.
What are Duties and Rights?
400
You must be certified by this to apply for a massage therapy license in Alabama.
What is the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork?
400
This is the number of years of experience in the practice of massage therapy that is required before you can teach in a massage therapy program.
What is Two Years?
400
These relate to the judgement of goodness and badness of human behavior and character. They are often stated in terms of virtues.
What are Morals?
400
When people develop ways to cope with situations and feelings they cannot process at the time of a traumatic event develop these.
What are Defense Mechanisms?
400
According to our book, this is the cornerstone of ethics.
What is Self-Accountability?
500
This is the cost of the APPLICATION form to apply for licensure in Alabama.
What is $25.00?
500
This is the year that the "Alabama Massage Therapy License Act" was inacted.
What is 1996?
500
These are codified rules of conduct set forth by a society and are generally based on shared ethical or moral principles.
What are Laws?
500
When people have experiences that are too painful to feel or to bear, they use this psychological mechanism to remove them from the awareness of their conscious mind.
What is Repression?
500
The two primary duties of a health professional are these.
What are non-maleficence (do no harm) and beneficence (do positive good)?
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