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Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships
by: Kylea Taylor |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 174.915 EAN: 9780964315815 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0964315815 Label: Hanford Mead Publishers Manufacturer: Hanford Mead Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1995-06 Publisher: Hanford Mead Publishers Studio: Hanford Mead Publishers |
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  - ClarifyingThis book was required reading for my while I was studying to attain my Reiki Master's certificate. I expected a rather dull ethics book, but this book is nothing even near dull. It takes the ethics of healing touch to a completely different (and clearer) level and gave me a much better understanding of my role as a Reiki Master. I understand why my teacher has her students study this book because of the depth of some of the issues are addressed in such a clear fashion that there can be no question as to how to handle them. It even covered things that I would have never thought of and explained our role explicitly. To me, it should be a must for anyone going into a healing touch profession whether it be Reiki or massage therapy or any related practices. We are responsible for our clients well-being and this is the overall theme of this book. Excellent source and easy reading. Rating:  - Ethics are Important in all MattersOnly Baptists and some Pentacostals believe it is a sin to dance. Poets calls dance as "making love to music." That's esoteric and not like physical love. Growing up Baptist, I did not learn to dance. But no one has to have professional lessons to express the music within them. At a free "big band" dance, I was asked by a college student where I had learned to dance. I told her that I never had, it was just the music coming out in my own special way and style. "Letting go of ego" is essential in any relationship. Not only do we have to appreciate, another adjective for value, the other person, but we have to be able to show it in a practical way. Many will not accept a gushy expression of how much they mean to you. They simply refuse to acknowledge that you simply don't know me when, for six years, you have learned to know and care deeply for that individual. If he still refuses to believe your devotion and caring, it is only his bad luck and ignorance. Sam asked me once: "Betty, do you write?" I answered honestly, "No, I just write reviews on Amazon.com." Sam calmed my inner turmoil when I was publicly humiliated in his presence. Sam quotes Henry David Thoreau, "many men go gishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." In 1982, my brother spent time with his troubled teen grandson who said of me "She is pretty." They went fishing. Though Ralph was uneducated in books, he was a master at endurance and perserverance in the ongoing education at the school of hard knocks. Thanks to Sam for letting me share good memories from the past and not-so-good from three years ago in the park. There are many types of relationships: acquaintances, friends to be offish to, friends to allow into your heart, children, grandchildren, ex-husbands who still want to control you after 26 years apart. I could go on and on about relationships. We have them whether we want them or not. We can't hide our heads in the sand as the ostrich and pretend the other person does not exist. There are ways to care for a person without being intimately involved. But some men don't know that yet. Rating: - Most pallitable ethic book I've readThis book covers a myriad of therapies. The format and scope was very appealing to me. It was not dry like most books I have read on ethics. A must for Complementary and Alternative practitioners. Rating: - Comprehensive and visionaryToo often, ethical questions are considered dreary subjects best left to a committee. This book helps us see ethics as integrally related to how we do our work, and to our own personal growth. It also embraces a wide spectrum of consciousness, in a systematic way. It is particularly remarkable for its emphasis on non-ordinary states of consciousness, and how to handle these intense experiences when they occur in our work with clients (whether deliberately induced or occurring spontaneously). The Ethics of Caring will be especially valuable for trainee caregivers, supervisors, clients looking for the appropriate therapist, and any professionals who finds themselves, as we all do from time to time, out of our depth. Rating: - Covers many of the ethical issues confronting therapistsThis is a very useful tool for any therapist, whether a mainstream counselor or doctor, or practitioners of complementary modalities such as massage. It discusses in plain language the ethical dilemmas we are all confronted by in our daily practice. I particularly appreciated the explanation of a client's vulnerability while in an altered state such as hypnosis or the deep relaxation produced by massage. The author also addresses the vulnerability of the therapist when faced with a client's issues that hook into the therapist's issues, creating a very murky situation indeed. The author assists us to provide appropriate loving care to our clients without violating boundaries. |
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