Standards of Practice Handbook, 9th Edition
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    		Standards of Practice Handbook, 9th Edition

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    ASIN: 1932495339

    Book Description

    The ninth edition of the Handbook contains the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct, commentary and interpretation of the Code and Standards with examples illustrating application of the Standards in the day-to-day professional activities of members and candidates, and a self-administered Standards of Practice examination with commentary. The ninth edition provides guidance on the Code and Standards that are effective 1 January 2006.
    The Ultimate Study Guide for the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork: Key Review Questions and Answers (Topics: Massage Therapy and Bodywork: Theory, Assessment, and Application. Professional Standards, Ethics, and Business Practices) Volume 3
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    		 The Ultimate Study Guide for the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork: Key Review Questions and Answers (Topics: Massage Therapy and Bodywork: Theory, Assessment, and Application. Professional Standards, Ethics, and Business Practices) Volume 3
    Patrick Leonardi
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    This is an excellent study guide for the:

    * National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork

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    * This is also an excellent source for class studies and state exams.

    This test preparation study guide consists of the following: Massage Therapy and Bodywork: Theory, Assessment, Application, Touch Therapy Modalities, Holistic Principles, Professional Standards, Ethics, and Business Practices.

    This is Volume 3 of a three volume series. Volume 1 covers Human Anatomy, Physiology and Kinesiology (Western and Non-Western). Volume 2 covers Clinical Pathology and Recognition of Various Conditions.

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    4 out of 5 stars National Massage Exam Study Guide.......2006-11-10

    The material arrived in a timely manner.
    It does seem to cover most if not all of the topics on the National Exam. It's a good way to practice answering questions to prepare for the actual exam.

    4 out of 5 stars Thank you.......2005-08-31

    I recommend this review guide as helpful. I passed Nationals in the first try and feel this guide brought me up to speed.

    5 out of 5 stars If you want to pass, this is the best!.......2003-12-01

    Awesome! I thought I knew a lot before I used these Study Guides,(Volumes 1, 2 & 3) but was I wrong. I'm convinced that I could not have passed the test without them. Together with "Massage National Exam, Questions & Answers" by Daphna R. Moore I passed the test with a "High" on each part. There were lots of questions on the test about professional standards, ethics and business practices. I'm glad I bought these books, since it is very expensive to take the test over again.

    5 out of 5 stars Overkill, but totally worth it.......2003-11-20

    I just passed the NCBTMB exam with HIGH in all areas and these three volumes really nailed it for me. There are a few mistakes in the format of the books, but I didn't find any errors in the answers. Some of the information I would never have reviewed had I not used these books. It took me three weeks of cramming 6+ hours a day most days to pass. It's printed on RED paper, which is a little distracting at first, and there are 500 - 950 questions in each volume.

    5 out of 5 stars Great Study Guide for the NCETMB, Must Buy!.......2003-05-28

    I found this book extremely helpful for the national certification test (NCETMB). The questions were of similiar type to the national test. This study guide gave me confidence and helped me get rid of some of my test anxiety. I also used Volume 2 (Clincal Pathology and Recognition of Various Conditions)ISBN: 0971999651 and Volume 1 (Human Anatomy, Physiology and Kinesiology)ISBN: 0971999643. I highly recommend these 3 study guides for the national test. I found them to be the best.
    Ethics and the Practice of Architecture
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    • Informative Literature in the Practice of Architecture
    • Best textbook for the UNESCO-UIA Education for Architects
    		 Ethics and the Practice of Architecture
    Barry Wasserman , Patrick J. Sullivan , and Gregory Palermo
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    ASIN: 0471298220

    Book Description

    From theory to practicea unique, well-rounded guide to ethics for todays architect

    How does an architect assist a community in evaluating alternative designs? Resolve a dispute with a contractor? Take into account a projects impact on the natural environment?

    When it comes to questions like these, making decisions about what ought to be doneor what is the "best" or "right" solutionrequires more than sound technical knowledge and strong design talent. It demands a solid understanding of the ethical issues that lie at the heart of architectural practice.

    Ethics and the Practice of Architecture offers a complete, broad-based introduction to this crucial subject. First, it examines basic ethical theories and their application to architecture, and discusses different ways of identifying ethical content in architecture. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, the second part of the book surveys different professional settings and building project processes that frequently hold ethical concerns, and charts the ethical mandates that arise from them.

    In the final section of the book, thirty case studies explore a wide range of ethical dilemmas encountered in architectural practice, with useful guidance on how to work through them effectively. Arranged by topics that span the key phases of a project from pre-design through post-occupancy evaluation, these case studies allow a detailed look at ethical concerns in real-life situations where multiple issues are often at stake.

    Providing a practical framework for the exploration of ethical issues in architecture today, Ethics and the Practice of Architecture is an excellent resource for present and future architects in all areas of the field.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Informative Literature in the Practice of Architecture.......2004-05-12

    I am very pleased to find a book written with such an extreme knowledge of the true meaning and use of ethics in the architectural field. It is an excellent text book for students in this field. It will help to guide anyone on their path to what a real architect should know and practice. I recommend it highly and found that it is a slice of literature which is in a field all it's own.

    5 out of 5 stars Best textbook for the UNESCO-UIA Education for Architects.......2003-12-13

    As stipulated in the UNECO-UIA Validation System for Architectural Education in 2002, Berlin Congress, Profession and Ethics in Architecture become requisite for university programs. With this background, I have examined that this book could be the best after reviewing several books for student to learn these field, although pages for profession seemed to be more expanded.
    Contemporary Auditing: Real Issues and Cases
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    		 Contemporary Auditing: Real Issues and Cases
    Michael C. Knapp
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    Learn how to think like an auditor with CONTEMPORARY AUDITING: REAL ISSUES AND CASES! With examples pulled exclusively from real-world auditing cases, you'll quickly learn how to recognize and understand the critical factors and circumstances that determine the outcome of audits. Studying audits within the text provides you with the information about the true nature of the work environment and work roles of independent auditors.

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    5 out of 5 stars Questions concerning book.......2004-05-27

    Do the case studies have questions and answers for students to look at?

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent Presentation of an Array of Stinking Cases.......1999-10-23

    I can't say anything more about this book. The author's presentation skills and overall arrangements are marvelous. It's not only informative to read it, but extremely fun! Though my firm specializes in securities, internal control, and compliance areas, I still regularly raise those issues highlighted in this book to my colleagues over email or during conference. We all benefit from it a lot.
    Professional Office Procedures (3rd Edition)
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      Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      Ralph Dolgoff , Frank M. Loewenberg , and Donna Harrington
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      ASIN: 0534641423

      Book Description

      ETHICAL DECISIONS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE will help you recognize ethical issues and dilemmas, reason carefully about ethical issues, clarify your ethical aspirations at the level demanded by the profession, and achieve a more ethical stance in your practice. It places ethical decision-making within the context of professional ethics and provides guidelines, including two ethical screens, to help you identify priorities among competing ethical obligations.

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      5 out of 5 stars Practical and Enjoyable.......2005-06-26

      This book was required reading for my Ethics class for my master's degree in social work. Of all the books, I enjoyed this one the best. It offers concise, easy-to-read chapters on a myriad of issues facing social workers in the field. These issues not only include ethical dilemmas in treating clients, but also issues involving personal ethics, agency bureaucracy, private practice, etc. Much of the information is thought-provoking and the excellent references provide further reading on those topics you are most interested in. This is one of those books you want to save after you graduate and include in your professional library.
      Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice
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      • A good text for allied health and nursing students.
      		 Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical Practice
      Raymond S. Edge , and John Randall Groves
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      5 out of 5 stars A good text for allied health and nursing students........1998-02-27

      This is an excellent introduction to health care ethics. Covers theory and principles and ethical decision-making in the first several chapters and the major issues in health care in the remaining chapters. The writers don't bog down in discussing these issues as do some current texts in bioethics. Very readable. Does not have cases so if one uses this for instruction a book with a collection of cases is needed (i.e. Cases Studies in Allied Health Ethics by Veatch and Flack).
      The The Ethics of Touch: The Hands-on Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Professional, Safe and Enduring Practice
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      		The The Ethics of Touch: The Hands-on Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Professional, Safe and Enduring Practice
      Cherie M Sohnen-Moe , and Ben E Benjamin
      Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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      Book Description

      This groundbreaking work on ethics addresses the difficult, confusing, and seldom-discussed but often-troubling dilemmas confronting touch therapy practitioners. By honestly describing the issues, identifying clear principles, naming specific resources, and using stories straight from the treatment room, the authors have written a book to guide, support, and inspire both students and seasoned practitioners. This book belongs in the office of every bodywork practitioner and in the classrooms of every professional training school. Features include useful and thought-provoking activities and exercises and real-life scenarios to intrigue students.

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      5 out of 5 stars Excellent and Thought Provoking.......2007-09-21

      This book is written with massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, etc., in mind, but as an Alexander Technique teacher I find it excellent, thorough and thought provoking. Well worth the price and time.

      3 out of 5 stars more of a college textbook .......2006-12-12

      The Ethics of Touch is a good textbook to begin learning about professional boundaries and ethics which is a much needed topic for massage therapists who are faced with issues on a daily basis.

      What other profession is there that has people come in and take their clothes off and let a strange person touch them. Such a dynamic is ripe for transferrence and counter-transference.

      I can't quite put my finger on the reason why I only am giving this book a 3 star rating but it is because it seems like such a cold and impersonal account of ethics. I would recommend getting this book but get some others too - The Educated Heart by Nina McIntosh, Issues and Ethics of the Helping Professions by Corey, and The Ethics of Caring.
      Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
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      • Objective, sad, but true
      • A Cynical Autopsy
      • Throughly depressing but an absolute must read
      		 Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
      Robert Jackall
      Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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      5 out of 5 stars bibliographic data : .......2005-11-06

      Author: Jackall, Robert.
      Title: Moral mazes : the world of corporate managers / Robert Jackall.
      Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
      Edition Date: 1988
      Language: English
      Notes: Includes index.
      Physical Details: ix, 249 p. ; 25 cm.
      Subjects: Business ethics--United States.
      Executives--Professional ethics--United States.
      Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States.

      5 out of 5 stars Objective, sad, but true.......2002-05-06

      "Moral Mazes" is an extensive, award-winning and highly accurate sociological portrait of life in the modern corporation, an academic precursor, so to speak, of the "Dilbert" cartoon strip. Unlike many other writers on this topic, Jackall doesn't resort to Marxist rants, but rather, compares modern corporate culture to the "Protestant" work ethic most Americans are raised into.

      Jackall's inquiry, based on in-depth interviews with managers themselves, is broad in scope, and it is hard to generalize. Within about 200 pages, he covers the social circles of the corporation, cronyism, bad decisionmaking and public relations, to name a few. He discovers that corporations, at the upper levels at least, resemble a king's court more than a meritocratic organization. The essential work of a manager is not "management" or "leadership," but constantly making the right friends and adopting the correct posture. Anyone who has worked in such a setting, or knows people in such a field, will be able to relate instantly, although it can be argued that Jackall did not need to spend years of ethnographic research to reach this conclusion.

      This book is not for everyone, as Jackall must conclude that "ethics" as practiced by managers is nothing more than "survival" and ambition for one's own "advantage." While such a diagnosis may seem harsh, it is difficult to rationally explain recent events in the marketplace, such as the Enron scandal, without concluding that corporate executives have a moral compass that differs from that of the everyday person.

      Contrary to what a layman may think, Jackall makes no moral judgments of his own, although readers most certainly will. The title itself can be misinterpreted by people not familiar with sociology. The "morals" Jackall discusses are not ethics (which he attacks in his intro), but Durkheim's "occupational morality." While he does study corporations, he calls the focus of this study the "bureaucratic ethos" (not "corporate ethos"). Anyone who's read history (or the local newspaper) already knows bureacracy can create its own rules, from governments (i.e., the Nazis and the Holocaust) to religions (i.e., Catholicism and child molesters).

      Surprisingly, by portraying executives' lives as frought with anxiety, guilt, "senseless" work and no reliable means to measure their self worth, Jackall may cause an intelligent reader to actually feel sorry for them. Reading though his interviews with executives, there's little question that many executives began to regard him as a "Father Confessor" to admit their deeds.

      At the same time, Jackall offers an alternative theory for why the American work ethic has all but vanished: if people are promoted based soley on their manipulative social skills, why would anyone want to subscribe to the old work ethic?

      2 out of 5 stars A Cynical Autopsy.......2001-02-23

      Robert Jackall strings together a series of worse-case scenarios gleaned from a very limited control group of corporations. He skillfully manipulates language (e.g., calling loyalty to one's boss 'fealty') in order to deliver what he thinks is an indictment of bureaucracy. He does have some interesting things to say about the press, but this occurs near the end and comprises less than a page of material. Save your time. Read something worthwhile like Thomas Sowell's classic "A Conflict of Visions." Jackall's book is not worth the read.

      5 out of 5 stars Throughly depressing but an absolute must read.......1998-10-07

      This book ought to be required reading for all MBA candidates and would be corporate middle managers as an intro into the sad and dysfunctional but real corporate world. In numerous scenes that will be instantly familiar to anyone who has worked at a Fortune 200 firm the book recounts numerous instances of failed and misdirected management. Depressing because it reveals the underbelly of corporate America and capitalism but readable in its accurate portrayal. Occasionally at times slow (particularly towards the end when he presumably is tired of writing) it does a clinical autopsy on management. Like watching a train wreck you are compelled to keep reading even as you realize the denouement. If you think that ignorance is bliss - give this a miss - on the other hand, if you are a frustrated idealist and need proof that in order for evil to overcome good, good only has to do nothing, it is worth the investment. An excellent primer on why we need ethics courses but more importantly ethical actions.
      Model Rules of Professional Conduct, 2006 Edition
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        Center for Professional Responsibility
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        ASIN: 1590316886

        Book Description

        The new 2006 Edition of the American Bar Association's Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on lawyer ethics. The ABA Model Rules serve as models for legal ethics rules of most states and provide guidance on key ethical issues, including lawyer malpractice, disciplinary action, sanctions and more.

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