LCCH Masterclasses

As practitioners of hypnosis we often have to deal with difficult patients in our consulting rooms. For all of us this can be a daunting prospect but it can be particularly anxiety provoking for the newly qualified therapist or student of hypnosis. Gaining skills, developing confidence in our own judgements and managing the therapeutic session well, can help us to develop confidence in our own abilities and achieve a more efficacious outcome for the patient in the long term. We also need to gain and develop skills around dealing with the unexpected. Patients may present with one symptom and yet something else occurs in the session. This can be unnerving for both the therapist and the patient and can prove problematic when a planned session has to be abandoned and the new presenting situation dealt with spontaneously.

The aim of this Masterclass is to provide strategies for dealing effectively and therapeutically with these encounters and to develop confidence and authority when working with the 'less than model patient'. This will be achieved through the demonstration of various problematic scenarios, and participants will benefit from seeing the situation managed from the outset through to resolution. Participants will also be able to gain practical skills through the interactive workshop and gain individual feedback on their own performance within a role play session.

Case studies will be used for practical purposes, and ideas and experiences shared. The day will consist of large group demonstrations, small group work, couple based scenarios, trance work and lectures.

The course is open to all those who work within a therapeutic environment and prior knowledge of hypnosis is not essential.

SYLLABUS:

• Confidence building for the therapist
• Determining boundaries from first contact
• The crucial rapport building session
• The over talkative patient
• The resistant patient
• The dominating patient
• The patient who arrives drunk or drugged
• The patient who has a major abreaction
• The manipulative patient
• The controlling patient
• The patient's controlling partner
• The patient who holds views diametrically opposed to your own
• The "......ist" patient

Glasgow - 29 February 2004
London - 20 March 2004
Manchester - 03 April 2004

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