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Relationships, both personal and professional, are incredibly nuanced and driven by a complex, dynamic interplay of psychological needs and wants. In this book designed for today's massage therapist, you’ll go on a fascinating journey to explore the factors that drive your personal behavior in relationships. Once you understand the psychological needs and wants that influence your actions and those of the people around you, you’ll be ready to apply your skills to set better boundaries with your massage therapy clients.

Once you’ve completed this massage ethics textbook, you will have the knowledge and skills to:

- Recognize your personal boundaries, notice when they are crossed, and respond effectively to boundary violations.

- Manage circumstances that would typically leave you feeling that someone has taken advantage of you.

- Deal confidently with situations that might normally feel uncomfortable.

- Articulate your need in a way that people understand and respect.

- Evolve your personal boundaries to improve your relationships with friends, family, work colleagues, and other health care professionals.

- Set strong and appropriate professional boundaries to maintain healthy therapeutic relationships with clients.

- Know how to resolve ambiguous or problematic client situations.

- Establish and maintain boundaries through effective relating styles, attention to body language, active listening, and assertive communication.

- Successfully manage the difficult client situations that you'll inevitably encounter during your massage career while maintaining the highest level of professional ethics.

- Enjoy your work more as your boundary-setting skills become second nature, and managing relationships, both personal and professional, takes less effort and causes less stress.

This is no ordinary digital textbook with page after page of boring text. Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice boasts:

- 109 images and illustrations

- 24 engaging videos running at over 7 hours 12

- “listen along” audio tracks

- 12 gamified activities to test your application of the knowledge

- Four lesson quizzes that give you instant feedback on your understanding of the content.

Unlike regular printed textbooks, Massage Mastery digital textbooks come alive with video, striking imagery, learning games, text translation, listen-along audio, critical-thinking scenarios, instant feedback, and more. A clear instructional design plan that boosts participant comprehension and reinforces important material. All on an interactive learning platform that ensures content is engaging, organized, and fun. Your students are about to “read” their textbooks and like it!

School administrators who are responsible for textbook adoption can request review copies here: https://massagemastery.online/request-review-copies