Most Massage Therapists receive Codes of Ethics and let Standards of Practice out of various sources. These lists of guidelines and rules are of help in setting the an expert standards for Massage Therapy. However, the "rules" can be slightly not the same as one organization to a different and, like anything in life, external rules need looking supported by internal values to be successful. When we notice ourselves in the gray areas where the rules don't seem to find, it's a good time for us to look inward to see what's up.
Take, for example, bicycles rule "don't accept treatments from clients. " Most of the time we will ask, "why not, what's wrong with that? " or "do we want to become so impersonal that can't accept a great advantage? " Good questions. Allowed where a client is providing a gift and we recognize the caliber of not accepting gifts, yet let me anyway, it's time to make available ourselves. Is the end up being accept the gift might our perceptions of precisely what the client needs to enhance the therapeutic relationship? Is it based upon our own needs suffering special, appreciated, or mandatory? The notion that even although our motivations are client based it's a an ethical dilemma than when personally based may not also apply in all aspects.
So this rule ("don't accept gifts") is as to the emergence of transference with countertransference issues, which might be rich ground for upgrading. When we delve thanks to our countertransference, we over and over again discover unmet needs, far-fletched fears and desires. This kind of could healing because when we bring them to consciousness, we find a way to grow and transform.
While ethical dilemmas generally are not very comfortable, if we approach along with the willingness to payment inward, we can bring lot healing to ourselves--a real gift!
© 2008, Rebecca Mauldin
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