Touch and Roles & Boundaries Package

Name: Touch and Roles & Boundaries Package
Brand: Institute for Integrative Healthcare Studies
SKU: ES1014
Price: 133.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.6 (101 reviews)

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Materials

Text - 224 pages
Multiple-choice tests
Certificate upon completion of each course

Description

This package contains two courses: The Value of Touch (7 hours) and Roles and Boundaries Related to Touch (3 hours).

The Value of Touch

The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy, well into childhood. Touch is critical for children's growth, development, and health, as well as for adult's physical and mental well-being.

Examine the value of touch from sociological, anthropological and physiological perspectives. Review significant research results on a variety of touch therapies, such as massage therapy, demonstrating its importance for various conditions such as asthma, cancer, autism and eating disorders.

In this course, you will investigate:

why touch and touch therapies are so important for people of all ages
why touch is essential for normal development and how it can be given to improve development during pregnancy, labor, delivery, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood
the most important functions of the integumentary system and how touch is useful for pain relief
the way touch therapies work to benefit people
specific benefits for a variety of infants, including those with special needs
specific benefits of touch for children, adolescents and adults, including those with special needs

CE Hours: 7

Roles and Boundaries Related to Touch

This course presents research results on touch therapies and emphasizes the need for change in societal attitudes.

In this course, you will:

identify what is considered appropriate human touch in the U.S. and how that varies from one gender to the other and among different cultures, and
identify the side effects of touch deprivation and who is most at risk.

CE Hours: 3

Course Objectives

Recognize why touch and touch therapies are so important for people of all ages
Identify what is considered appropriate human touch in the U.S. and how that varies from one gender to the other and among different cultures
Identify why touch is essential for normal development and describe how it can be given to improve development during pregnancy, labor, delivery, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood
Identify the side effects of touch deprivation and who is most at risk
Identify the most important functions of the integumentary system and describe how touch is useful for pain relief
Reference the textbook and identify the way at least three (3) touch therapies work to benefit people
Identify specific benefits for a variety of infants, including those with special needs
Identify specific benefits of touch for children, adolescents and adults, including those with special
needs

Course Reviews

Sue Lorincz NCMT Woodstock, GA

9/13/2019

I was very happy with the ease of this CEU.

Whitney Twiford Waddington, LMBT Kill Devil Hills, NC

9/13/2019

Great course... easy to take!

Kathryn B. Fidax, PT, CMT Tucson, Maryland

9/13/2019

Great general information and good research to support claims. This course gives me info I can share with clients about the importance of massage.

Linneah Dalmus, LMT

9/13/2019

This was my favorite of the three courses I recently ordered.

Cheryl D. Slojkowski

9/13/2019

I am very happy to have the opportunity to take this course for my license renewal. I have been aware of Tiffany Field's studies of massage therapy for many, many years, but never seemed to have the time to research her findings. The book is well written and organized and is easily read. Her research has proven that every one benefits from massage, sometimes even the person performing the massage - whether a new mom or a senior citizen!

Instructors

Sharon Burch, MSN, RN, NCTMB

Sharon Burch holds a Masters Degree in Nursing and has been practicing as a nurse since 1974. She is currently a Registered Nurse in the state of Arkansas. Additionally, Ms. Burch studied under many of today's leaders in massage therapy and bodywork during the 1980s, became Nationally Certified through the NCBTMB in 1993 and holds a professional membership with the AMTA.

As founder of Health Positive!, Ms. Burch has created over 60 home study nursing and massage continuing education programs, performed over 65 public, live educational presentations, has written two published books, served as a member on the NCBTMB Continuing Education committee and was a founding member of the National Association of Nurse Massage Therapists.

Sharon is an instructor on many of the Institute's programs and has authored and co-authored various ethics courses and additional titles such as Touch for the Seriously Ill, Stress Reduction Through Bodywork, Staying Well – Naturally, Cardiopulmonary Health and Illness, Chronic Pain Management, Marketing Massage in Four Easy Steps, Preventing Medical Errors, HIV Update for Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers, Understanding HIV, Massage for Edema and more.