COVID-19 Related Recommendations for Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educators ACCESS THE PDF-VERSION HERE (opens in a new tab) In May 2020 the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education (AFMTE) formed a task force to explore COVID-19 recommendations or guidelines to assist educators in maintaining/returning to high quality education, both in schools and in continuing education. Guidelines…
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Therapeutic Massage Instructors Create New Ways To “Touch” Their Students In mid-March, 2020, Forsyth Tech sent their students off to Spring Break little knowing that instruction as normal would not return to the college for the rest of the semester – indeed, perhaps for the foreseeable future. What was quickly clear was that the COVID-19…
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Education has been identified as the most stressful profession in the human service industry, making it a minefield for educator burnout. Burnout can manifest in several ways, including disinterest in work, boredom, sleep problems, restlessness, inability to focus, depression, lack of productivity, tardiness and absenteeism, decline of social skills, workaholism, and deterioration of professional boundaries.…
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