Intermediate/Advanced Workshop October 15-16, 2022
EARLY REGISTRATION IS OPEN - OCTOBER 15 - 16, 2022 FALL WORKSHOP!
"Personal Power: Hypnosis to Enhance Strengths and Hypnosis with Couples"
12 CEU's and credit toward ASCH Certification!
WHEN: October 15 - 16, 2022
WHERE: Virtual Workshop via Zoom
CREDITS: 12 CEU's and Credit Toward ASCH Certification
Presented by Stephen Kahn, Ph.D.
Stephen Kahn earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1984, then became a post-doctoral fellow at Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kahn has been in private practice since 1979. He has directed a number of major research projects at the University of Chicago, one on Hardiness and Stress and another on Creativity in Artists. In addition, he has authored several papers and publications and has presented lectures based on his research endeavors. He is co-author of a book entitled Self-Hypnosis: The Chicago Paradigm. Dr. Kahn co-edited a volume with Erika Fromm published in 2001 called "Changes in the Therapist," and also co-edited a volume entitled "Medical Hypnosis Primer" in 2009. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and is currently a member of both the American Psychological Association and the Illinois Psychological Association, as well as the Maine Psychological Association. He is both on the faculty and a Fellow of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) and is a Past-President of that organization. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), he is also certified in Clinical Hypnosis and is an ASCH Approved Consultant.
Personal Power: Hypnosis to Enhance Strengths
Hypnosis with Couples
Learning Objectives:
- List three dimensions of Hardiness based on research
- Identify three techniques for enhancing Hardiness
- Administer and interpret an assessment tool for Hardiness –pre and post tx
- Identify and apply two specific techniques for enhancing Creativity
- Outline a research-based model for treating couples
- List two specific techniques for enhancing couples' resilience
- Administer and interpret an assessment tool for couple's resilience
Program Schedule:
Saturday, October 15:
Resilience and Positive Psychology
Resilience/Hardiness Model (Commitment, Control, Challenge)
Hardiness Assessment
Experiential: Increasing Hardiness
The Hardy Therapist
10:45 - 11:00 AM Break
- Nurturing Childhood Antecedents of Hardiness
- Action Plans and Resolving Blocks
- Anger Management
- Acceptance
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 3;15 PM
Creativity:
Theory & Research: Wallas; Csikszentmihalyi
Experiential Exercise
3:15 - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 5:00 PM
Creativity - Specific Techniques:
- Preparation and immersion in fantasy
- Reclaiming past successes
- Intensifying the creativity response
- Resolving blocks to creative emergence
- Increasing present or future productivity
Sunday, October 16:
- Assessment: Resilience Survey
- Research: Gottman, Figley & McCubbin, Kahn, and Maddi
- Intervention: Pinsoff, Coche
- Types of Hypnotic Couples Interventions
- Resilience Model (increasing intimacy and decreasing conflict).
- Indications and Contraindications
- Taking the History
Experiential Exercise
Psychoeducation – teaching hypnosis and coupling skills in a group format:
Resiliency Training for Couples - Specific Techniques
- Rekindling early positive relationship emotions
- Defusing Strain cycles by fostering communication
- Managing relationship thoughts
- Resolving unfinished family-of-origin business
- Addressing ongoing problems in the relationship
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 3;15 PM
6. Anger/Conflict Management in Couples Therapy I (Simultaneous vs. Individual)
- Stopping the marriage-go-round
- Cognitive & Emotion-Focused
- Time Outs & Time Distortion
- Projective Identification - Deconstruction
- Separation of Different Aspects of the Self
- Expression of Need/Coping Alternative
- Taking Responsibility
- Learning
- Rehearsal
- Evaluations - Adjourn
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, nursing, or other medical fields, 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. All attendees must have previously taken an ASCH approved Basic Hypnosis course or workshop.
Continuing Education Credit
We offer 12 Florida CEU's for licensed psychologists under 490 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 5/24); clinical social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists under 491 (Provider #50-774, Exp. 3/23), and all our workshops count toward ASCH certification requirements. We automatically report to CEBroker.
Location: From the comfort of your home via Zoom
Registration Fees - Discounts for Early Registration
Before Sept. 15 | As of Sept. 15 | |
FSCH Members | $425 | $475 |
FSCH NEW Life Members | $212.50 | $237.50 |
Non-Members | $500 | $550 |
FSCH Graduate Students/Intern Members | $300 | $350 |
Graduate Students/Intern Non-Members (with student documentation) |
$375 | $425 |
Note: if you are a graduate student or intern FSCH member, inquire about the Mutter Scholarship 40% discount.