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Zacharek S, Dockterman E, Sweeland Edwards H. The silence breakers. Time. December 18, 2017. http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/. Accessed December 13, 2017.
LaMotte S. How #MeToo could move from social campaign to social change. CNN. November 9, 2017. http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/health/metoo-legacy/index.html. Accessed December 13, 2017.
Facts About Sexual Harassment. US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/fs-sex.cfm. Accessed December 13, 2017.
Assault and Battery. Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault_and_battery. Accessed December 13, 2017.
Code of Ethics for the Physical Therapist. American Physical Therapy Association. http://www.apta.org/Ethics/Core/. Accessed December 13, 2017.
Standards of Ethical Conduct for the Physical Therapist Assistant. American Physical Therapy Association. http://www.apta.org/Ethics/Core/. Accessed December 13, 2017.
Policy Statement: Informed Consent. World Confederation for Physical Therapy. http://www.wcpt.org/policy/ps-consent. Accessed December 13, 2017.
Purtilo RB. Applying the principles of informed consent to patient care. Legal and ethical considerations for physical therapy. Phys Ther. 1984;64(6):934-7.