May 19 and 20, 2012 Intermediate/Advanced Workshop
12 hours CEU's
HIPPONOSIS
It's Not Just for Kids
Hypnosis for Children and the Child Within All of Us
presented by
Linda Thomson, APRN, ABMH, FASCH
Program Outline
Saturday, May 19, 2012 (6 credit hours)
Registration from 7:45 to 8:30 am
Program: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, with breaks and lunch catered by FSCH
- Developmental perspective
- Anxiety and performance enhancement
Sunday, May 20, 2012 (6 credit hours
Program: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, with breaks, and lunch available
- Developing and using metaphors
- Preparing patients for surgery
- Wrap-up

Workshop Objectives
After having taken this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe how to match hypnotic strategies to the developmental level of the individual
- Design an effective hypnotic intervention for 2 habit dosorders common in children and adults
- Demonstrate a clenched fist technique and how it might be used to lessen anxiety and enhance performance
- Demonstrate skill in incorporating metaphors into hypnotic work
- Formulate and create efficacious hypnotic techniques to use with surgical patients pre-operatively,

intra-operatively, and post-operatively
- Generate new, useful hypnotic interventions that can be used with an individual in acute pain, and also an individual with chronic pain.

Eligibility
Health professionals who have already taken an ASCH-approved Basic Hypnosis course, 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. 5/12); 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.
If you're interested in the program, click here to register online!