The content of this course places an emphasis on the psychotherapeutic knowledge pertaining to depression and will enable you to select and use approaches and techniques that will help the vast majority of those seeking your help with this condition.

The use and efficacy of hypnosis is included. Up to quite recently hypnotherapists were discouraged , even warned to shy away, from treating clients with depression. However, although we need to be aware of certain contraindications and avoid certain approaches and techniques, the benefits of using hypnosis, alongside and incorporating other methods, are now well established. This has been argued cogently by, for instance, Yapko and Aladdin.

Although classified as a mood disorder by DSM IV, on this course you will learn that depression is much more complex than this, with a number of interrelated dimensions. This demands that treatment has to be customized to an individual’s subjective experience within the particular contexts in which he or she experiences the suffering. It is more accurate to talk about depressions rather than depression.

Amongst the wealth of material introduced on this course we will explore: –

• the benefits and reasons for using hypnosis;
• what it is that causes some to become helpless yet others to rise above their problems;
• the significance of positive expectation and development of a positive response set in clients who will probably have a past orientation;
• a number of theories, (cognitive, intrapersonal and interpersonal), describing the causes of depression;
• a large variety of interventions, which are appropriate for each of those theories;
• the significance of directed, strategic therapy and the role of directives;
• the need to understand the client’s frame of reference and all of the contexts in which the clients lives;
• how to interrupt negative and rigid patterns of thinking and behaving in order to break the patterns that maintain depression;
• strategies that help clients to let go in order to move on;
• the significance of core values and beliefs in the development of rigidity and how to help clients generate other ways of perceiving and interpreting events, in order that they are able to see things from different perspectives;
• the use of dissociation and working with parts;
• approaches that encourage the externalisation of thoughts and feelings and the creation of meaning from the experience of self observation..

During the course you will be introduced to many methods and techniques but all of these will just be examples. What is most important is that the course will help you to think more strategically and to design interventions for each unique client .

Date: 14th/15th March 2012
Time: 1000 to 1630
Venue: Leeds – Venue TBA
Trainer: David Collingwood-Bell

Price:
NCH Members: £200 (Save 16%!)
Non-NCH Members: £240

Bookings:
01978 769178
www.delwynhypnotherapytraining.co.uk

It is a condition of taking part in this course that each participant brings a copy of When Living Hurts: Directives for Treating Depression by Michael D Yapko. This will be used as a textbook as the course proceeds.