Weekend 1
- Welcome
- House rules – timekeeping – confidentiality
- Expectation exercise
- Feeling exercise. “I feel ………….”
- Assessment criteria:
- Practical skills - Journal - Essay.
- Hypnoanalysis – structures and goals
- Favourable outcome theory
- Demonstration of a structured hypnoanalysis session
- Reflecting feelings and meanings exercise. Reflecting content
- Practice management - Marketing strategies
Weekend 2
- Video – Gloria
- Discuss, analyse and critically evaluate the skills used
- Trio work – Listening – Reflecting feelings and meanings & silence.
- Establishing the working alliance.
Weekend 3
- Melanie Klein – theory
- The Paranoid – Schizoid Position
- Our adult world and its roots in infancy
- The psychodynamic approach
- Transference & countertransference
- Trio work – the underlying problem –the purpose of the session
Weekend 4
- The internal supervisor – self assessment techniques
- Object relation theory (Winnicot)
- Trial identification
- Erickson – Theory
- Stages of development
- The therapeutic relationship
- The analytic encounter
- Trio work – hypnoanalysis – exploring the roots in infancy
Weekend 5
- Attachment and loss theory - (Bowlby)
- Unfocussed listening
- Codes of ethics
- Trio work – hypnoanalysis continued
Weekend 6
- The humanistic approach
- Organismic self / The locus of evaluation
- The core conditions – (congruence.)
- Focusing and challenging
- Appropriate use of self in the counsellor role.
- The value of supervision
- The transpersonal relationship
- Trio work – empathy, support
Weekend 7
- Transactional analysis – racket system
- Transactional hypnoanalysis
- Voice dialogue – working with sub personalities
- Working with archetypes
- The multiple personality disorder
- Breath integration techniques
- Trio work – practical application of THA
Weekend 8
- Cognitive-behavioural approach
- Lazarus – multimodal therapy
- Sazs – the myth of mental illness
- DSM IV – assessment and diagnosis
- Clinical evaluation – evaluations & strategies
- How to write a psychological report
- The use of metaphors
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Schizophrenia
- The Bi-polar personality
- Narcissistic personality type
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Trio work - putting it all into practice
Weekend 9
- Bandler – NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
- Timeline therapy
- Transformation therapy
- Reframing theory
- Meta programming
- Trio work - putting it all into practice
Weekend 10
- Group hypnotherapy and hypnodrama
- Working with groups
- Stress and the general adaptation syndrome
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross – loss and bereavement
- Trio work - putting it all into practice
Weekend 11
- The ending of a counselling relationship
- Worden - loss and bereavement theory.
- Revision of theory
- Forming an orientation
- Memory and hypnosis
- Introduction to the theory and practice of the integrative approach.
- Theoretical application within the counselling practice
- Trio work – last session – feedback from client
Weekend 12
- Self hypnosis and relaxation – the course
- Setting up courses – human resources
- Working with corporate clients
- The integrative approach
- Integration of therapeutic orientations and hypnotic strategies
- Practice management
- Future possibilities
We will continually assess, review and update the course content, material and method. We reserve the right, whilst maintaining the stated syllabus, to effect changes in emphasis in any part of this prospectus.
ASSESSMENTS
Assessments for the course consist of:
• 30 case histories of sessions as Client, Therapist, and Observer
• 2 in-depth case studies demonstrating theoretical underpinning of therapeutic practice
• A written essay on the theoretical elements of the course
In order to maintain a high standard of practice, as required by the major accrediting and professional bodies, students will be constantly assessed by the tutors.
QUALIFICATIONS
On successful completion of the course you will be awarded the Advanced Diploma in Hypnoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy entitling you to use the letters Adv. Dip. SACH Hyp after your name. You can also apply for membership of the National Council of Psychotherapy (NCP) and the American Council of Hypnotherapist Examiners (ACHE).