Course 01:
Personal Space and Personal Boundaries
Part of the Boundaries CE Series
Table of Contents
Course area
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Welcome to Course 01: Personal Space and Personal Boundaries in an Ethical Massage Practice. This continuing education course accompanies the digital textbook Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice. When you complete the course requirements and pass a multiple-choice examination, you will receive a certificate of completion and 4 hours of NCBTMB-approved ethics CE. Next, please watch the course orientation video, review the course description, outline, learning objectives, and requirements. Then, follow the numbered directions to get started.
In this course, we meet Kayla who is struggling to maintain a healthy therapeutic relationship with her client, Alice. Kayla has difficulty establishing and maintaining her boundaries and her clients often take advantage of this fact.
With an in-depth look at the natural human instincts, needs, wants and expectations that drive our desire for personal space, we’ll come to understand our boundaries better and identify why people cross into our personal space. Understanding our own boundaries, helps us attuned to client boundaries and untangle the complex dynamics that often cause us to feel confused or drained at the end of the massage workday.
Video presentations, interactive features, learning activities, and a discussion with seasoned massage professionals keeps this content fresh, fun, and engaging. What we learn about ourselves, will positively shift both our personal and professional relationships.
The digital textbook titled, Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice is required for completion of this course. This textbook is included with the purchase of this course.
ORIENTATION AND INTRODUCTION
- Orientation Video
- Introduction
PERSONAL SPACE AND PERSONAL BOUNDARIES
- Introduction
- Learning objectives
- Terminology Preview
- Physical Space
- Sexual Space
- Sensory Space
- Psychological Space
- Emotional Space
- Need for Privacy
- Need for Autonomy
- Need for Ownership
- Let’s Talk Boundaries
- Apply It! (3 Activities)
- Practice Quiz (10 Questions)
FINAL EXAMINATION (20-MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS)
Having completed the content of this course, you will be able to:
- Define these terms: Physical boundaries, sexual boundaries, sensory boundaries, psychological boundaries, emotional boundaries, privacy boundaries, autonomy boundaries, and ownership boundaries.
- Give a real-life example of each aspect of personal space: Physical space, sexual space, sensory space, psychological space, emotional space, privacy, autonomy, and ownership.
- Give a real-life example of a boundary violation related to each aspect of personal space: Physical boundaries, sexual boundaries, sensory boundaries, psychological boundaries, emotional boundaries, privacy boundaries, autonomy boundaries, and ownership boundaries.
- Complete a journaling exercise or discussion activity to define personal boundaries in each of these areas: Physical boundaries, sexual boundaries, sensory boundaries, psychological boundaries, emotional boundaries, privacy boundaries, autonomy boundaries, and ownership boundaries.
This course requires the completion of the materials in the Orientation and Introduction, and Lesson 01: Personal Space and Personal Boundaries in the digital textbook titled, Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice. You do not need to complete Lessons 02, 03, or 04 in the digital textbook to meet the requirements for this course. Please click the “mark complete” button at the bottom of each webpage in the digital textbook to log your progress through the appropriate sections. You must pass the final course examination from the link at the bottom of this Course Area with a score of 70% or higher.
Healthy Professional Boundaries Begin with Healthy Personal Boundaries
Number 01: Identify the Course Area
This is the Course Area for Course 01: Personal Space and Personal Boundaries in an Ethical Massage Practice. In this course area, you can (A) review course material, (B) launch the course examination, (C) complete a course evaluation, and (D) download your certificate of completion for CE reporting after you pass the course examination.
To return to this Course Area, log back into the site and click on the access button for Course 01: Personal Space and Personal Boundaries in Ethical Massage Practice.
Number 02: Get the Digital Textbook
You’ll complete most of your course requirements using the digital textbook, Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice. This textbook would have been added to your account at no additional cost when you purchased this course. To access this digital textbook at any time, click on any of the textbook links on this page or go to the navigation menu and click the “My Personal Dashboard” link to locate it.
Number 03: Complete the Orientation and Introduction
From the Table of Contents for Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice, click on the link to the Orientation and Introduction. (A) watch the orientation video, (B) read the text, and (C) click the “mark complete” button at the bottom of the page.
Number 04: Complete Lesson 01: Personal Space and Personal Boundaries
From the Table of Contents for Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice, click on the link to Lesson 01: Personal Space and Personal Boundaries. Complete each section by watching associated videos, reading the text, completing the learning activities in the “Apply It!” section, and passing the practice quiz. At the bottom of each webpage, click the “mark complete” button. This button records your progress through the course and helps you return to where you left off if you take a break.
Number 05: Pass the Final Course Examination
Note that you do not need to complete all four lessons of the digital textbook to complete this course and pass the final course examination. Lessons 02, 03, and 04 relate to other courses in this series.
- When you are ready, return to this Course Area and scroll down to the final examination link at the bottom of this webpage.
- The final course examination is composed of 20 multiple-choice questions from a test bank of 30 questions.
- The content assessed in the final course examination is based on the information you learned in the Introduction and Orientation and Lesson 01 of the digital textbook (Boundaries: The Foundation of Ethical Massage Practice).
- You must pass the examination with a score of 70 percent or higher.
- If you fail the final course examination, you may try again. You can make five attempts to pass the final course examination.
- Each time you reset an exam to make a new attempt, the learning management system shuffles questions from the test bank and mixes the order of correct answers. You won’t see the same exam twice.
- Please review content in-between failed attempts to ensure you know this material well enough to try again.
- After five failed attempts, you can contact us via email, and we will manually reset the exam to give you five more attempts. There is a $10 fee to reset the examinations.
Number 06: Certificate of Completion for CE Reporting
After passing the final examination, you’ll have the option to print or download your certificate of completion. Alternatively, return to this Course Area at any time after successfully completing your exam and you’ll see a large green button labeled “Print My Certificate” at the top of this page. Click that button to download or print your certificate.
Number 07: Complete a Course Evaluation
Please complete a course evaluation after you finish the course. As an approved CE provider, NCBTMB requires that we collect feedback from course users. Your feedback also helps us understand what works and what could use improvement. Thank you for taking the time to help us improve the quality of our digital textbooks and courses.