MTX 1070 - Ethics

Clock Hours: 20

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
This ethics course will discuss in great detail client/therapist interactions and what is appropriate and what is not, as well as appropriate ways to handle compromising situations. It will also cover HIPAA compliance as it falls under ethical boundaries as well.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Understand and explain Ethics and Professionalism with in their context of our profession, and the impact history of massage has had on the profession. (CSLO 16; PSLO 2, 5)

Define and explain behavior of professionals.
Explain and define professional ethics of massage therapy.
Recognize professional/clinical conditions that might present ethical dilemmas.
Recognize professional behavior that would be considered unethical by a majority of ”reasonable” professionals.
Discuss professional behavior in relationship to the ethical considerations and potential therapeutic outcome.
Recognize and explain how a massage therapist’s behavior might enhance and/or compromise the physical, mental, and/or emotional health of a client.
Identify, explain, and understand the emotional/legal implications of establishing a personal/intimate/sexual relationship with a client.
Discuss ethical behavior within multidisciplinary settings.
Define dual and multiple roles, therapeutic boundaries, transference and counter‐ transference, and power differential and provide examples of how these elements influence professional behavior and ethical practice.
Discuss and recognize important people in the history of massage therapy and their contributions to building massage therapy as a career.
Discuss and recognize HIPAA laws and violations, as well as what to do if HIPAA is breached.