Ethics , boundaries, and Laws

Question 1

is a transgression of personal or professional boundaries that may or may not be experienced as harmful.

Answer 1

Boundary crossing

Question 2

list of acceptable and encouraged moral behavior of members of a profession

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Code of ethics

Question 3

is an ethical principle that upholds a client’s right to privacy and prohibits giving information about a client to others without the clients legal permission as decreed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

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Confidentiality

Question 4

behaviors or thoughts that help people cope with unwanted feelings such as fear, anxiety, guilt and anger; common types are projection, denial, , repression, displacement, and resistance; often unconscious

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Defense mechanisms

Question 5

any relationship other than the primary one of practitioner and client.

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Dual Relationship

Question 6

are obligations to act in a particular way; responsibilities that arise out of being in a certain position in relationship to others, or as a result of some action

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Duties

Question 7

1. define the ethical question
2. determine if this is also a legal issue
3. identify, values, right, and professional standards, that apply
4. List the people who might be affected by the outcome of the decision
5. List alternative courses action
6. Identify the most important values, rights, standards, and other considerations
7. Identify your own motivations or interest in the outcome, and personal temptations
8. Consider advice from others
9. Select the course of action that maintains, the highest values, or that results in the greatest good with the least harm. (Do the right thing).
10. Evaluate the consequences of your decision, and learn from your experience.

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Ethical-decision-making model

Question 8

are a type of ethical question in which two or more principles are in conflict and where something of value will be compromised regardless of the choice of action; involves selecting the lesser harm or greater good.

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Ethical dilemas

Question 9

is consistency in making good ethical decisions; strengthened y awareness, learning, and experience; improves with critical thinking and evaluating results

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Ethical judgment

Question 10

are problems related to the morality of certain actions;require judgment to determine the most ethical choice.

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Ethical questions

Question 11

is the study of the nature of moral behavior, of right and wrong; examines choices for behavior, and uses a decision-making process to determine the degree of morality of certain actions.

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Ethics

Question 12

is a procedure used to ask for explicit permission from a client to touch a certain body area or perform a specific technique

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Informed voluntary consent

Question 13

the process used to clarify and safely disengage inappropriate client behavior that puts the therapeutic relationship in danger, and to make a decision whether to stop or continue with a massage session.

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Intervention model

Question 14

is a limit established by a person to maintain his or her own integrity, comfort, or well-being.

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personal boundary

Question 15

in an attraction to unethical actions.

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Personal temptations

Question 16

refers to the difference in authority between a massage therapist and a client in the therapeutic relationship; massage therapists have more power in the relationship by virtue of training, experience, and perception of greater authority.

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Power differential

Question 17

the study for moral behavior related to a certain occupation.

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Professional ethics

Question 18

are claims to certain treatment or, to protection from certain treatment; expected to be honored by others, and enforced by standards or laws if necessary.

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Rights

Question 19

describes the legally allowed, or professionally defined, methods used by a certain profession, as well as intention in performing them. Different professions have different scopes of practice as defined by law or y profession. Massage techniques fall within the scope of practice of several professions.

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Scope of practice

Question 20

refers to any sexualizing of the relationship between a massage therapist and a current client; can occur before, after, or during a massage session, and can be perpetrated by the massage therapist or by the client; forms of sexual misconduct range from those involving speech and body language to inappropriate touch to sexual contact, to sexual assault.

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Sexual misconduct

Question 21

are documents developed by professional associations that outline acceptable ethical professional conduct of its members.

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Standards of practice

Question 22

is a model for understanding the separate and unique roles of the practitioner and the client in the therapeutic relationship

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Therapeutic relationship

Question 23

is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a client responds to a practitioner as if the client were relating to someone important in his or her past , and placing those positive or negative feelings onto the therapeutic relationship.

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Transference

Question 24

are principles, traits, or qualities considered worthwhile or desirable; protected by ethical standards and codes of ethics.

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Values

Question 25

Defense mechanisms include:

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projection, denial, repression, displacement , and resistance