Ethical Standards & Professional Applications Flashcards
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When a CMA is working cross-culturally and applies Effort analysis to movement that carries specific cultural meaning (such as ritual or ceremonial movement), the primary ethical concern is:
Answer: Imposing a Western analytical framework may misrepresent or disrespect culturally specific movement practices
Applying a culturally embedded framework to diverse movement practices risks ethnocentric misinterpretation and requires cultural humility and consultation.
A CMA working with children must obtain informed consent from:
Answer: A parent or legal guardian, and where developmentally appropriate, assent from the child
Working with minors requires parental or guardian consent plus age-appropriate assent from the child to respect their developing autonomy.
Which scenario BEST illustrates a violation of the ethical principle of fidelity in CMA practice?
Answer: A CMA promises to keep movement observations confidential but shares them without consent
Fidelity requires keeping commitments and promises; breaking a confidentiality promise violates this core professional obligation.
A CMA is approached to analyze movement footage from a deceased individual. The ethical considerations include:
Answer: Respecting the legacy and potential impact on surviving family members, and seeking appropriate permissions
Ethical responsibilities extend to deceased individuals' legacies and the potential impact of analysis on surviving family members and communities.
The LBMS (Laban/Bartenieff Movement System) practitioner code requires that advertising and marketing of CMA services:
Answer: Be accurate, honest, and not misrepresent the scope or efficacy of movement analysis
Professional marketing must be truthful and accurately represent what movement analysis can and cannot accomplish.
When a supervisee CMA disagrees with a supervisor's ethical judgment about a client case, the appropriate action is to:
Answer: Raise the concern respectfully with the supervisor and, if unresolved, consult the organization's ethics resources or a third party
Ethical disagreements in supervision should first be addressed directly and respectfully, with escalation to formal channels only when direct dialogue fails.
A CMA applies Flow effort analysis to categorize a client's movement as predominantly 'Bound' and shares this in an interdisciplinary team meeting. The ethical risk in this scenario is:
Answer: Team members without LMA training may misinterpret 'Bound' as a negative diagnostic label rather than a neutral movement descriptor
LMA terminology can be easily misunderstood by non-practitioners, requiring CMAs to contextualize and translate movement descriptors carefully in interdisciplinary settings.