Therapeutic Touch is a dynamic interactive process, not a technique. Some theories behind it are Quantum Theory, Florence Nightingale Theory, Rogerian theory, and David Bohm’s implicate and explicit order theory.
Therapeutic Touch® International Association (TTIA) was established as Nurse Healers-Professionals Associates in 1979 under the leadership of Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN and Dora Kunz, co-creators of this modality. Nurse Healers Professional Associates International, Inc. remains the body that sets the standards and offers credentials to practitioners and teachers of Therapeutic Touch®, while TTIA is the membership arm of the organization. It is a voluntary, not-for-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization. Therapeutic Touch International Association serves as the central resource for information on Therapeutic Touch®. TTIA is an international network of members interested in Therapeutic Touch®. It facilitates the exchange of research findings, teaching strategies, standards for practice and teaching, and new developments in Therapeutic Touch. The human being is viewed as a complex, dynamic whole, and healing is seen as the means of restoring the integrity of the body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
This international cooperative network of health care professionals is committed to excellence in healing through Therapeutic Touch. Its organization is a world-recognized resource for persons in the field of health care, laypersons and other organizations interested in information on Therapeutic Touch, and for practitioners and teachers searching for teaching and learning materials related to Therapeutic Touch. TTIA also serves as a center for persons who are in need of healing and are seeking Therapeutic Touch practitioners in their locality.
To fulfill these purposes, TTIA facilitates the exchange of research findings, teaching strategies, and innovative teaching-learning tools concerned with Therapeutic Touch practice, teaching, research, and the development of theoretical models on healing.
It is the mission of Therapeutic Touch International Association (TTIA) to lead, inspire, and advance excellence in Therapeutic Touch ® as a healing practice and lifeway.
Therapeutic Touch International Association
www.therapeutictouch.org
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518-325-1185 phone
509-693-3537 fax
I would like to sign up as an RN, Integrative Licensed Counselor, and Therapeutic Touch Practitioner on your list! I practice in Utah. Your website is not letting me. How can I sign up as an integrative counselor and therapeutic Touch practitioner under Therapeutic Touch?