Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
London
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Duration
12 Months
Facilities
Location
Start date
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About this course
The entry requirement is completion and passing of the Foundation Course in Hypnotherapy.
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Course programme
Introduction
This is the second of the three courses that make up the total training in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH). Students on this course become member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and sign its code of ethics and practice as well as take out practice. The diploma course includes a large number of innovative hypnotic and non hypnotic techniques used in the treatment of symptoms, emotional and psychological problems.
Course Content
Weekend 1
- About the course
- Hypnosis and hypnotherapy
- Basic principles and practice
- Meaning of healthy and unhealthy, rational or irrational
- Types of thoughts or cognitions
- Belief pairs
- Psychological disturbance
- Different emotions: healthy and unhealthy emotions
- Mixed emotions
- Meta emotions
- Action tendencies and behaviour
- ABCDE model of emotional change
- Process of change
- Building therapeutic alliance and rapport in hypnotherapy
Weekend 2
- Dealing with client misconceptions
- The first session and hypnotic work
- Explaining your therapeutic work and framework
- Psychological education – hypnotic and non hypnotic methods
- Distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy emotions
- How to assess client problems: emotions, thoughts, behaviours and symptoms
- Assessing your client’’s unhealthy emotions and behaviours
- Challenges in assessing the emotions and behaviours
- Techniques for assessing the activating event – hypnotic and non hypnotic
- Challenges in assessing the A in the ABC
Weekend 3
- Significance of psycho-education, clinical assessment and pre-hypnotic work
- Assessing unhealthy beliefs: hypnotic and non hypnotic techniques
- Theory-driven approach
- Open-ended approach
- Setting a goal in line with the assessed problem
- Assessing meta-emotional problems
- Teaching clients the view of therapeutic change: hypnotic and non hypnotic methods
- Dealing with objections to emotional responsibility
- Commitment to change
- Undermining the negative aspects of goals
Weekend 4
- Erickson, Ericksonian hypnosis and cognitive and behavioural therapy
- Disputing beliefs
- Purpose of disputing
- When to dispute client’’s unhealthy beliefs
- Disputing unhealthy beliefs
- Disputing healthy beliefs
- Hypnotic disputation
- Homework assignments: hypnotic and non-hypnotic
- Understanding and integration
Weekend 5
- Alert hypnosis and suggestibility in non hypnotic therapy
- From head to heart
- Strengthening healthy beliefs-Hypnotic and non hypnotic Part 1
- Strengthening healthy beliefs-Hypnotic and non hypnotic Part 2
- Dealing with obstacles in integration
- Dealing with obstacles in client progress
Weekend 6
- Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (Integrative CBH)
- Direct suggestions in CBH
- Behavioural psychotherapy
- Hypno-desensitisation techniques
- Aversion techniques
- Masses practice techniques
- Flooding
Weekend 7
- Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (Integrative CBH)
- Inner child therapy – Hypnotic
- Apposition of opposites – Hypnotic
- Introduction to dissociation – Hypnotic
- Dissociation and its applications
- Two-stage Dissociation – Hypnotic
- Ego state therapy
- One part and multiple parts dissociation – Hypnotic
- Regression and time lines – Hypnotic
Weekend 8
- Further CBT models and their use in hypnotherapy
- Aaron Beck model and its use in hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and its use in hypnotherapy
Weekend 9
- Further CBT models and their use in hypnotherapy
- Psycholinguistics in hypnotherapy
- Developing cognitive skills through your internal dialogue
- Internal dialogue
- Negative automatic thoughts (NAT)
- Hot thoughts
- How to change internal dialogue
- Past, present and future expressions
- Constructive internal dialogue
- Force and rigour
Weekend 10
- Applications of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy
- Nail Biting and CBH
- Stopping smoking and CBH
- Insomnia and CBH
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Fear of blushing (erythrophobia) and CBH
Weekend 11
- Performance anxiety and CBH
- Phobias and CBH
- Weight control and CBH
- Assertiveness and CBH
Weekend 12
- Pain control and CBH
- Psychosexual dysfunction and CBH
- Goal directed therapy and CBH
- Review of process of CBH
- Exam review
Direct entry onto the Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy is possible, provided that the applicant has previous hypnotherapy and counselling skills qualifications.
Duration
The Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy is of twelve months” duration with lectures spread over twelve weekends (Saturday and Sunday) at monthly intervals.
Course Dates
London (D557) June 2010
12th and 13th June 2010
10th and 11th July 2010
14th and 15th August 2010
11th and 12th September 2010
09th and 10th October 2010
13th and 14th November 2010
11th and 12th December 2010
08th and 09th January 2011
12th and 13th February 2011
12th and 13th March 2011
09th and 10th April 2011
14th and 15th May 2011
Exam: 18th June 2011
Additional information
Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy