NEW DIPLOMA COURSE

SYLLABUS

DIPLOMA IN COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY

Please note that all weekends comprise theoretical and practical work.

WEEKEND ONE

WEEKEND FOUR

About the course

Erickson and Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Disputing unhealthy beliefs

Basic Principles and Practice

Purpose of disputing

Meaning of Healthy and Unhealthy

When to dispute client's unhealthy beliefs

Types of Cognitions

Disputing unhealthy beliefs

Belief Pairs

Disputing healthy beliefs

Psychological Disturbance

Homework assignments

Healthy and Unhealthy Emotions

Understanding and integration

Mixed Emotions

Meta Emotions

WEEKEND FIVE

Action tendencies and behaviour

ABCDE

Alert hypnosis, suggestibility in non hypnotic therapy

Process of Change

Integrating the healthy solution ­ Part 1

Building the Therapeutic Alliance and Rapport in

Integrating the healthy solution ­ Part 2

Hypnotherapy

Obstacles in integration

Obstacles in client progress

WEEKEND TWO

WEEKEND SIX

Dealing with misconceptions

The first session

Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

Explaining your therapeutic work, i.e. Hypnosis with

Part(s) dissociation therapy

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Regression

Teaching ABCDE

Inner child

Distinguishing between Healthy and Unhealthy

Apposition of Opposites

emotions

Direct suggestions

Assessing problems

Assessing unhealthy emotions and behaviours

WEEKEND SEVEN

Challenges in assessing the C of the ABC

Assessing the Activating Event

Applications of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

Challenges in assessing the A in the ABC

Performance Anxiety

Panic Disorder

WEEKEND THREE

Phobias

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Relevance of pre-hypnotic work

Depression

Assessing the unhealthy belief

Theory driven approach

WEEKEND EIGHT

Open ended approach

Setting a goal in line with the assessed problem

Eating disorders

Assessing meta-emotional problems

Weight control

Teaching clients the view of therapeutic change

Assertiveness training

Dealing with objections to emotional responsibility

Goal directed therapy

Commitment to change

The process of Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy

Undermining the negative aspects of goals

Review

Exam brief and format

To receive a booking form for the Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy telephone or email the LCCH

Venue: 27 Gloucester Place, London, W1U 8HU

Starting: 1 October 2005

Times: 10 am to 5.15 pm

Course Fees: £1200.00 + VAT

Exam Fee: £110.00 + VAT

London College of Clinical Hypnosis

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Summer 2005