The Ethics of Touch Book

The Hands-on Practitioner's Guide To Creating a Professional, Safe and Enduring Practice

This groundbreaking work on ethics directly addresses the difficult and confusing dilemmas confronting touch therapy practitioners. It is written to guide, support and inspire both students and seasoned practitioners.

The Ethics of Touch Teacher's Manual is available to qualified schools and teachers. Visit the Teacher's Corner for more information and to sign up.

You may purchase the book here, or Contact Us for volume discounts.

RSS News and Announcements

3-Sep-2010 Today is a great day!
1-Jul-2010 The List of Schools that require or recommend The Ethics of Touch is updated. Over 330 schools now require the book as a course text.
1-Jul-2010 The The Ethics of Touch Teacher's Library has over 200 new and improved Slides and Handouts. They have been separated into individual chapters. The Handouts are black and white; the Slides are very colorful.

We have updated the PowerPoint slides in our teaching materials so that the text adapts to your screen size, and the artwork is new. Chapters with release date in bold are updated since our last announcement.

  • Teaching Tools (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 1 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 2 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 3 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 4 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 5 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 6 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 7 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 8 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • Chapter 9 Slides and Handouts (30-Jun-2010)
  • All Chapters: Handouts - b&w (1-Jul-2009)
The Teacher's Manual is online to qualified teachers for business courses using The Ethics of Touch as a required text. Sign up now!
15-Dec-2009 A new review is in the Reviews section:
11-Aug-2009 The Art of Teaching in the Teacher's Library is updated.
14-Jun-2004 A new section, Ethics Discussion Scenarios, is added to the Teacher's Corner.
15-Apr-2004 A new section, Codes of Ethics, is has been added to the site. A variety of Codes are presented from the somatic professions.
2-Sep-2003 Take a look at the new Authors' Biographies section. Besides the two main authors a number of individuals contributed significantly to the book.
28-Aug-2003 The Ethics of Touch Home-Study Series, Chapters Seven, Eight and Nine, are available.
25-Jul-2003 The Ethics of Touch Home-Study Series, Chapters Five and Six, are available.
24-Jun-2003 The Ethics of Touch Home-Study Series, Chapters Three and Four, are available.
1-May-2003 The Ethics of Touch Home-Study Series, Chapter Two, is available.
31-Mar-2003 The Ethics of Touch Home-Study Series, Chapter One, is available.
14-Mar-2003 The Associated Bodywork and Massage Professionals (ABMP) demonstrates its commitment to the industry! ABMP feels strongly enough about the importance of sound ethical conduct that they are providing a copy of The Ethics of Touch book to their most senior Certified level members and to each accredited massage training institution in the United States.
Copies of the book were mailed today.
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