Clinical Hypnosis, Counselling, Relaxation, Stress Management, Guided Imagery and Cognitive -Behaviour Therapy (CBT) Course for Health Professionals

• Increase your therapeutic power
• Boost compliance
• Encourage loyalty
• Expand your practice

You will learn how to help your patients with and without medication. Many students comment that this is one of the best courses that they have ever attended. Learn the theory and how to put it into practice.

This is a practical course

Expect to learn a lot and to enjoy using these new skills - for self hypnosis and for helping your patients. You will learn and understand how hypnosis is produced, including its occurrence in every day life. Hypnosis is used to empower people and to increase their self efficacy.

This course will teach you the fundamentals of CBT, guided imagery, counselling, stress management and relaxation. The emphasis is on using a positive approach with your patients. Each day the whole group relaxes together. CBT forms the  platform for the knowledge and skills acquired in this course.

Each time we relax, confidence building suggestions are given to improve wellbeing, concentration and self esteem.

You will also be practising relaxation and hypnosis with your colleagues each day in small groups. Group debriefing follows practical sessions. All activities are voluntary. No activity is compulsory. You will learn a variety of techniques so that you can vary the relaxation, guided imagery, CBT approach or hypnotic procedure according to the personality of the patient.

Rapid techniques are included which are useful for the busy practitioner.

You will learn how to achieve relaxation and self hypnosis.

When you know how to develop a feeling of relaxation yourself, you are more effective in using relaxation with others. By the end of this course, you can expect to be proficient at inducing relaxation, guided imagery and hypnosis with appropriate patients.

You can use these skills in your practice immediately.
This is an ititial course in hypnosis, but it is much more than an introductory course.

 This is one of the best courses that you will ever attend.

Courses are being conducted in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in 2009.

 
ELIGIBLE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

The College of Medical Hypnosis has been conducting courses regularly since 1982 and has trained health professionals from every state in Australia as well as students from overseas. This course is restricted to health professionals only who have medical, para medical or psychological training. The majority of students are medical practitioners and psychologists. Australian health professionals need to have state registration to enable them to work in clinical practice, such as nurses and midwives, psychologists, medical practitioners, dentists, physiotherapists, chiropractors & osteopaths, or to be a social worker or occupational therapist. Participants need to provide evidence of qualifications in addition to registration documentation. Social workers & occupational therapists need to provide copies of qualifications plus professional vocational insurance.

CORE THERAPIES TAUGHT

The core therapies taught are for:

• anxiety reduction
• insomnia treatment
• smoking cessation
• weight loss
• memory enhancement
• improved concentration
• self-esteem strengthening
• facilitation of decision making
• pain reduction
• pain related depression alleviation
• emotional healing
• empowerment and self efficacy
• appropriate self control

The course involves 48 hours of interactive learning, held over 6 days, from 8.30am until 5.30pm. An assessment is held at the conclusion of each day during the course, leading to the award of:
The Certificate of Clinical Hypnosis.

There are further courses including three different Advanced Clinical Courses available once you have consolidated the skills which you will learn in the Clinical Course. With further course involvement and assessment, this course leads on to:
The Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis.

Completion of all three Advanced Courses leads to:
The Diploma of Advanced Clinical Hypnosis.

COURSE APPROVALS 

Appproved by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) for vocationally registered general practitioners (VRGPs) since 1993.

• Approved by the RACGP Quality Assurance and Continuing Education Programme for Category 1 Continiung Professional Development (CPD) activity points, formerly termed CME points for: 
• 6 Active Learning Modules (ALM's) each worth 40 category 1 points. VR GPs need a minimum of 2 ALM's (80 CPD points) out of a total 130 CPD points required per triennium. The remainder of the points can be acquired from either category 1 or category 2 activities *.
• This course covers the complete educational requirement for VR GPs for the triennium, except for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Approved by the General Practice Mental Health Standards Collaboration (GPMHSC) for both Level 1 and Level 2 training. Level 2 training is also termed Focussed Psychological Strategies (FPS) mental health training and enables GPs to register to use the FPS related mental health Medicare item numbers. GPs who are already registered for FPS can maintain their currency in the current triennium by attending this course

Approved by The Australian College of Rural & Remote Medicine (ACRRM) for 30 Extended Skills & 30 Core Skills PD points.

Psychiatrists can allocate 48 credit hours for this course for MOPS.

Approved by the Australian Psychological Society (APS) for generalist PD points and for 96 specialist PD points (category 2) by the College of Health Psychologists plus awaiting news from 3 other colleges. 

Approved by Australian Psychological Society (APS) for its members for the first time in 1995.

For intern psychologists in NSW, the course was approved for 20 credit hours by the Psychologists Registration Board of NSW in 1995 . From 1996, credit hours have been allocated by a training psychologist's individual supervisor. Individual supervisors can use the previous credit hours as a guide.

Appellated / approved by the Australian Association of Social Workers for double credit points = 96 PD points.

Approved by OT Australia (the Australian Association of Occupational Therapists, (AASW)  for 12 CPD points.

Approved by the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses for 48 CPE points. 

Approved by the College of Nursing for 68 CPD hours.

Approved by the Australian College of Midwives for 45 PD credit points under the midPLUS programme.

Accredited by The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) CPD Program, approval no. 1419 under Category 2/Level 2 – 2 Credits per hour as 96 credit points. (Accreditation does not represent endorsement or approval by the ANZCA of the activity.)

Approved by The Australian Practice Nurses Association for CPD hours.

It is intended that applications will be made to The Australian Dental Association, The Australian Physiotherapists Association, The Chiropractors Association of Australia  and the Australian Osteopathic Association later in 2009.

Course endorsement was previously allocated by the Irish College of GPs in 2003.

Venues

The clinical course will be held in Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin and Melbourne in 2010.

The Sydney venue is :
The New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry
Cumberland Psychiatric Hospital,
Hainsworth St. Westmead or Fleet St. North Parramatta 2145.

The Melbourne venue is :
The Collins St Baptist Church Collins St, Melbourne 3000.

The Brisbane venue is :
Mercy Place, 371 Simpsons Rd. Bardon 4065.

The Darwin venue is to be arranged.

Further venue details will be given upon enquiry.

Course fees for skills training which you will use in your profession are tax deductible.

 * The RACGP only guarantees credit points when both course convenors and participants comply with RACGP requirements  such as completion of course assessment forms.

Dr Alan Fahey M.B., B.S. (Syd Uni)  M.Psych.Med. (U.N.S.W.)  F.A.C.Psych.Med., M.Psychiatry

02/02/2010