Hypnosis for Children and the Child Within All of Us
presented by
Linda Thomson, APRN, ABMH, FASCH
Eligibility
Health professionals holding doctoral degrees in medicine, dentistry, podiatry and psychology, or doctoral or masters degrees in social work, marriage and family therapy, mental health counseling, or nursing, licensed in the state in which they practice; degree graduates receiving documented clinical supervision toward licensing, and graduate students in eligible disciplines with documentation of their student status from the Chairperson of their graduate program.
Continuing Education Credit
We offer 12 Florida CEU's for licensed psychologists under 490 (Provider #PCE-23, Exp. 5/14); clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists under 491 (Provider #BAP 675, Exp. 3/14), and all our workshops count toward ASCH certification requirements. We automatically report to CEBroker.
Location
We are pleased to be back at the Naples Hilton location we have used before. It's at 5111 Tamiami Trail North, in Naples, FL 34103, and you can call them at 239-430-4900, identifying yourself with FSCH to make reservations. The rooms are $99 a night, which includes a hot breakfast for up to 2 people per room. To see more about this 4-star hotel, check their website, at http://www.hiltonnaples.com or watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJkV5siwTyQ&feature=player_embedded.
Remember that the workshop ends at 3:30 each afternoon, so you and your family have a chance to enjoy everything this location has to offer.
Make sure you've made your reservations by April 27, 2012, since we can't guarantee availability or our group rate after that date.
If you're interested in the program, click here to register online!
Early registration rates are in effect until April 20, 2012
Program
This two-day workshop will give clinicians playful hypnotic techniques to use with patients/clients of all ages. Many hypnotic techniques used with adults are not suitable for children. However, many strategies used with children can be utilized effectively with the inner child of the adult.
The workshop will include a review of the developmental stages of childhood and the importance of the careful use of language when working with clients. Strategies to help the individual manage pain and anxiety will be discussed along with the neurobiological underpinnings of our understanding of the areas of the brain that are affected by our carefully crafted suggestions. A variety of conditioned psychophysiological, semiconscious behavior patterns that may develop during childhood, and then become habituated and difficult to extinguish, will be discussed. Effective hypnotic interventions for a variety of common physical, emotional and behavioral disorders will be presented along with video demonstrations of hypnosis sessions.
The presentation will describe inteventions that can be used with clients, that not only give the individual skills to solve the problem himself, but also increase self-esteem, bolster a sense of accomplishment, and give the person valuable skills that can be adapted to many new situations throughout life. An experiential opportunity to design treatment strategies for several different disorders will be an integral part of the workshop. Also included will be a framework to help individuals with self-regulation, to enhance performance, and to prepare for sergery.
A portion of the workshop will be devoted to increasing the knowledge, skills and comfort level of the participants in developing metaphors for use in their hypnotic work. Small group skill practice sessions will be used to help attendees learn to cultivate the positive forces of imagination, bypass natural resistane to change, and generate new patterns of consciousness by using metaphors in their hypnotic work. This ASCH approved 12 hour workshop will include didactive presentations, video demonstrations, and opportunities for skill practice.
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Linda Thomson, APRN, ABMH, FASCH has been a Nurse Practitioner for the past 37 years, employed in primary care in both a pediatric and a family practice. She received her undergraduate degree from Hartwick College, and graduate degrees from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts. Linda is an Approved Consultant in Clinical Hypnosis, the only nurse to ever have been awarded Diplomate status on the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. In 2009 she was named the Distinguished Nursing Alumna of Hartwick College, having previously received the Outstanding Young Alumna and the Meritorious Service award from that institution.
Linda has published on a wide variety of subjects in professional journals in the United States, Europe and Australia. She has contributed chapters in both nursing and hypnosis texts, and is the author of the renowned "Harry Hypno-potamus" books of metaphorical tales. "Stress Free Surgery" is a CD program she created to help surgical patients prepare for and recover from surgery. Linda is also an Advisory Editor to the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.
Linda is the next President-Elect of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, is past-president of the New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and is a founding member and past-president of the Northeastern Mountain Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She is co-director of Hypnovations: Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Programs. For more information see http://www.hypnovations.com.
Passionate about teaching the ethical and efficacious uses of clinical hypnosis, Linda has taught workshops across the country and around the world, changing the attitudes, practices and beliefs of health care professionals concerning hypnosis. She brings passion, humor, and a unique gift for teaching to the 2012 FSCH Spring Workshop.
