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. A Diploma certification in CBH is awarded on completion of the Diploma course.  The diploma course includes a large number of innvoative hypnotic and non hypnotic techniques used in the treatment of symptoms, emotional and psychological problems.

By the end of Weekend 6 Diploma students will have learnt to use CBH to deal with the following mix of emotional problems and their behavioural consequences:

• Anxiety
• Mild to medium Depression
• Guilt
• Embarrassment and Shame
• Hurt
• Anger and Rage
• Unhealthy jealousy and Envy

Entry and pathway requirements for the Diploma Course

Content of Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy (CBH)

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
• Intergrating the healthy solution - part 1 (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 therapy
• Techniques in behaviour therapy
• Integrating behaviour therapy with CBH
• SUDs scale to identify the critical A
• Systematic desensitisation
• Implosive techniques
• Positive reinforcement techniques
• Assertiveness training in CBH

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

• Evolution of cognitive behaviour therapy
• Beck's cognitive therapy
• Techniques in cognitive therapy
• Beck's CBT model now
• Assessment and formulation
• Helping clients become their own therapists
• Distraction techniques
• Behavioural experiments
• Acceptance and commitment therapy
• The ACT process

Weekend 9

• Further CBT models and their use in hypnotherapy
• How the mind works
• Psycholinguistics in hypnotherapy
• Developing cognitive skills through your internal dialogue
• Internal dialogue
• Negative automatic thoughts (NAT)
• How to change hot thoughts
• How to change internal dialogue
• Past, present and future expressions
• Constructive internal dialogue
• Force and rigour
• Affirmations

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
• Constructing hypnotic scripts in CBH
• Phobias and CBH
• Weight control 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.

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