Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional

ISBN: 978-1-7923-7937-6
By: Williams, Anne

ABOUT THE BOOK

Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional is a comprehensive introductory massage text first published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW). The digital text is organized to motivate students with progressive topics that build their confidence and sense of accomplishment. Students gain a strong foundation in both the underlying theory and the practice of contemporary massage therapy. Twenty-four clear, easy-to-follow chapters are broken into manageable reading assignments that explore all the key areas addressed in most massage programs. In addition to traditional massage therapy topics, you’ll find several new and emerging topics that are essential for preparing today’s adult learners for successful massage careers. This digital text, priced for affordability, boasts an impressive collection of 38 demonstration videos useful for hands-on practice sessions or to help students who missed classes catch up. Adopting schools can also get access to the original ancillary package provided by LWW. This package includes lesson plans, study guides, study guide keys, and PowerPoint slides. Content progress reports and digital topic quiz scores give instructors an easy way to monitor student reading assignments and concept comprehension.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anne Williams

Anne Williams is a massage therapist, educator, massage author, and instructional designer. Before co-founding Massage Mastery Online, Anne was the Director of Education for Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP) from 2006-2019. Anne Williams has been a licensed massage practitioner (LMT) for 24 years, and is a former esthetician, certified reflexologist, clinical hypnotherapist, former registered counselor, aromatherapist, spa consultant, author, and educator. She is the former Director of Education for Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals (ABMP), where she pursued her passion for instructional design and developed support materials and resources for massage students, instructors, schools, and professional members from 2006 until 2019. Anne worked as a massage instructor for eight years with an emphasis on curriculum development and program implementation for Ashmead College in Washington State, and in 2004 became their director of education at the Tacoma campus. She has offered a number of different continuing education programs including workshops on hot stone massage, aromatherapy, spa therapies, and reflexology. Anne has served on the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards’ (FSMTB) test writing committee and developed ABMP’s Student Life Program, ABMP’s Exam Coach, ABMP 5-Minute Muscles, and many other resources for schools and instructors. She also wrote the curriculum for the “Instructors on the Front Lines” massage teacher training program for ABMP from 2008-2019, and the content for the ABMP School Forum from 2007-2019. She is the author of Spa Bodywork: A Guide for Massage Therapists (2006), Massage Mastery: From Student to Professional (2013) both previously published in print by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. Anne served as project leader for the Entry-Level Analysis Project (ELAP), a research project that described what a person must know and be able to do to practice massage safely and competently at the entry level. The ELAP curriculum blueprint outlines the learning outcomes and learning objectives all schools should teach in foundational education and was published in 2013 by the Coalition of National Massage Therapy Organizations. Anne partnered with Eric Brown and the team at ABMP to produce the ABMP Business Summit, ABMP Back Pain Summit, Eric Dalton Online Workshop, and ABMP Head & Neck Summit attracting more than 16,000 registrants and hosting more than 7,000 people online, live at one time.