Roles & Boundaries Ethics Package

This package contains two courses: Ethics: Health Professionalism (4 hours) and Ethics: Roles & Boundaries (2 hours).

Ethics: Health Professionalism

This short course gives massage therapists and bodyworkers an opportunity to reflect on their own professionalism and several important ethical considerations that relate to the health professions.

This course reviews:

• the roles and boundaries of your practice
• commonly misunderstood questions about the scientific method and how to apply them to setting the boundaries of your practice
• the correct application of each component of the therapeutic process: assessment, referral, therapeutic action and outcome evaluation
• important ethical considerations that relate to the roles and boundaries of professional massage and/or bodywork

CE Hours: 4

Ethics: Roles & Boundaries

This general practice level course provides massage and bodywork professionals with a discussion of the major legal and ethical concepts and terms related to roles and boundaries, so that one may better understand how these concepts are applied in the health professions today. This course provides a short and concise review.

This course reviews:

• definitions for assault, battery, sexual assault, false imprisonment, defamation, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress
• examples of breach of confidentiality and the healthcare professional's obligations regarding the informed consent process
• transference, countertransference and boundaries and application in practice situations

CE Hours: 2