MST 1080 - Ethics

Clock Hours: 20

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
Understand and explain Ethics and Professionalism within their context of our profession and the impact the history of massage has had on the profession.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Understand and explain Ethics and Professionalism within their context of our profession and the impact the history of massage has had on the profession. (CSLO 6)

Define and explain the 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 countertransference, 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.