PROFESSIONAL TOUCH
CLASSIFICATIONS OF TOUCH
INTENTION DURING MASSAGE
UNIQUENESS OF TOUCH
TOUCH AS COMMUNICATION
100
Skilled touch delivered to achieve a specific outcome; the recipient in some way reimburses the professional for services rendered.
What is professional touch?
100
True -OR- False Hostile touch is caused when conflict or a power struggle exist between the client and the professional.
What is true?
100
Define intention..
What is knowing what you want
100
True -OR- False You can completely replicate someone else's massage.
What is false?
100
True -OR- False: In many ways touch is a more emotionally powerful form of communication than speech.
What is true?
200
The roots of the word _________ concern touch and the various applications of touch.
What is massage?
200
Touch that has intent of sexual arousal and expression is ______ touch.
What is erotic (sexual) touch?
200
The conscious awareness of the collected and integrated subconscious information that is processed through environment.
What is intuition
200
How many chakras are there?
What is 7
200
______ communication uses specific words with specific meanings to relay a message.
What is verbal communication?
300
Name two perspectives of touch.
What is physical and psychological?
300
The type of touch that can make a person feel insecure, anxious, fearful, threatened, connected emotionally, intimate, or aroused when touched in a more sensitive or "charged" area.
What is invasive touch?
300
True or False - inappropriate touch comes from the upper 3 chakras?
What is False
300
What are the two qualities of touch?
What is Sujective and Objective
300
_____ communication is more ambiguous, relying on interpretation of its meaning through past experience and current circumstances.
What is touch communication?
400
What is the largest sensory organ in the body?
What is skin
400
The three forms of ______________ touch in massage therapy are hostile or aggressive touch, erotic (sexual) touch, and invasive touch.
What is inappropriate touch?
400
True or False- Expressive touch is used to support and convey awareness and empathy for the client as a whole person (example: using massage for relaxation, pleasure, etc.)
What is TRUE
400
When was massage first mentioned in writing?
What is 2000 BC
400
To say that people of a certain culture act a certain way is ____________.
What is stereotyping?
500
Healing is the restoration of what?
What is well-being
500
Nontherapeutic: shaking hands, bumping into someone on the elevator... Therapeutic: touching a client's shoulder to direct him to massage room, holding a client's hand as they thank you
What is one form of nontherapeutic appropriate touch and one form on therapeutic appropriate touch?
500
True or False - Expressive touch is used to achieve a specific anatomic or physiologic outcome?
What is False, mechanical touch is used to achieve a specific anatomic...outcome.
500
What do each of the 7 chakras represent?
What is safety/survival, pleasure, power/control, non-judgmental love, communication and creativity, self-reflection, and the spiritual self
500
This can influence the response to touch experiences
What is life events