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The statistics on sexual abuse are staggering. They lead us to the conclusion that a significant number of people are suffering from injuries and trauma that sexual abuse causes. This reality points to a strong liklihood that you will encounter survivors of sexual abuse in your bodywork practice.
Intentional Touch™ adances the aptitude of health practitioners to effectively provide services to people who need help recovering from the effects of sexual abuse. Intentional Touch™ provides the health practitioner with ways to minimize the inherrant risks of working with this client population and maximize the benefit. Intentional Touch™ enhances the success of many modalities and procedures, preventing retraumatizing clients who are suffering from the effects of traumatic experiences. It initiates, strengthens and reinforces the body’s own natural inclination to heal. It prepares the mind of the recipient to cultivate and strengthen confidence in the provider, the procedure, and their own body’s ability to respond. It gives the recipient an experience of safety, security and comfort. There have been several recent studies that suggest confidence, trust, and safety increase biological changes resulting in positive influence on the healing process.[1]
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Principles of Intentional Touch™ |
- Health depends on the interrelationship of all people and all things.
- The attainment of health is a process rather than an end in itself.
- Health depends on the quality of life, not the absence of illness or disease.
- We, as health care practitioners, do not heal another person. The individual owns the outcome
- Each individual has the authority over his or her own health
- We, as health care practitioners must take care of ourselves in order to offer the highest quality services possible to our clients
- An environment of safety and comfort is necessary for promoting healing in clients
- We have a moral obligation to deliver our services with responsibility and respect
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Copyright © 1999 by Donna C. Cerio
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