EMP 808 M. Murphy 3 credits
Ethics and the Law in Energy Medicine II
Description
Students will gain an understanding about the ethical, legal, and regulatory issues that affect the therapeutic relationship, with a specific emphasis on energy medicine practitioners. This course will explore ethics in energy medicine as a gateway to transformational consciousness based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Students will gain an understanding about the place of energy-orientated modalities within complementary and alternative medicine and the new delivery system of healthcare in the U.S., identified as integrative/integral medicine. Students will learn ethical and legal principles for energy-oriented practices, the core psychological concepts in ethics, what is considered unethical behavior, and risk factors for potential legal liability. Students will learn the importance of self-accountability as the cornerstone of ethical actions. Students will learn a model for assessing potential ethical vulnerabilities based on the chakra system. Students will understand what ethical considerations need to be addressed in introducing innovative energy-based therapies in a clinical practice.
Objectives
Participants will become familiar with the following:
- Students will gain a greater perspective regarding the current national movement towards the regulation of energy medicine and the integration of energy medicine into a new health care model identified as integrative/integral medicine.
- Students will understand the necessity of complying with federal, state, and local laws and regulations that may affect the energy medicine modality they use in their practice or would like to incorporate into their practice.
- Students will understand the history and development of ethics codes from related fields, such as medicine, psychology, and massage that offer guidelines and a foundation for ethics in energy medicine.
Topics
- Introduction to ethics in energy healing as a gateway to transformational consciousness. The place of energy-oriented modalities within complementary and alternative medicine. Ethical, legal, and regulatory issues in energy medicine.
- Introduction to the chakra system as a template for assessing potential ethical vulnerabilities. Ethical and legal considerations in introducing energy therapies to potential clients.
Texts
- Creating Right Relationships: A Practical Guide to Ethics in Energy Therapies, by Dorothea Hover-Kramer and Midge Murphy, 2005, Territorial Publishing Company, Eugene, OR.
- Future Medicine, Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation, by Michael H. Cohen, 2003, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
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