Articles Of The Week June 06, 2021 - The Massage Therapist Development Centre

This week’s articles of the week are centred around therapeutic alliance and communication. As opposed to blog’s it’s centred more around research papers.

This paper attempts to explore the patient perspective of ending the therapeutic relationship in regards to massage therapy, which is rarely explored in literature. This is a great read to offer us clinicians some insight into why patients may independently choose to cease treatment with their therapist. – Patients’ Experiences of Ending Massage Therapy Care: a Commentary – Amanda Baskwill, PhD, MSc, BEd, RMT^1,^* and Suzanne Michaud, BA, RMT²

This paper looks at the therapist’s personal attributes and in-session activities that positively influence the therapeutic alliance from a broad range of psychotherapy perspectives. Attributes such as being flexible, honest, respectful, trustworthy, confident, warm, interested, and open were found to contribute positively to the alliance. I included this paper to offer a moment of self-reflection; how might these attributes look in the context of massage therapy?

A review of therapist characteristics and techniques positively impacting the therapeutic alliance – Steven J. Ackermana,*, Mark J. Hilsenrothb

This article looks at behavioural aspects of pain (ie, peoples’ responses to pain) by identifying individual expectations, beliefs, and feelings as prognostic factors for clinical and occupational outcomes indicating progression to chronicity and how physical therapists directly or indirectly address these barriers to recovery.

Advancing Psychologically Informed Practice for Patients With Persistent Musculoskeletal Pain: Promise, Pitfalls, and Solutions –Francis J Keefe, Chris J Main, Steven Z George

This paper talks about the history of Motivational Interviewing and gives the reader indications and some broad ideas of how to implement this into practice. Although the MI approach in massage has been questioned for its scope of practice concerns, how might you adapt this or aspects of into your scope to improve your interviewing skills?

Motivational interviewing in musculoskeletal care– Robert Shannon BSc MSc1 and Melvyn Hillsdon PhD2

Reflection on your practice and therapeutic relationships is something the massage therapy profession should take part in to help us foster growth within the way we approach treating and collaborating with our patients. Occupational Therapists are known for their practice of self-reflection. This analysis looks at 13 occupation therapists are their reflection on the complexities of building and maintaining therapeutic relationships, barriers they identified and proposed resolutions to barriers.

Qualitative Analysis of Occupational Therapists’ Reflective Notes on Practicing Their Skills in Building and Maintaining Therapeutic Relationships – Farzaneh Yazdani, BSc, MSc OT, MA, PhD1 , Amy Stringer BSc OT 2 , Laya Nobakht BSc, MSc3 , Tore Bonsaksen, BSc OT, MSc4 , Kellie Tune BSc OT,

Jamie Johnston

As the creator of the site, I hope you like what you’re reading. I’m a Registered Massage Therapist in Victoria BC, former Massage college clinical supervisor, First Responder instructor, hockey fan and Firefighter. Come hang out on the facebook page, where we can share some ideas about how to improve the perception of the Massage Therapy industry.

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As the creator of the site, I hope you like what you're reading. I'm a Registered Massage Therapist in Victoria BC, former Massage college clinical supervisor, First Responder instructor, hockey fan and Firefighter. Come hang out on the facebook page, where we can share some ideas about how to improve the perception of the Massage Therapy industry.

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