Pain Management and Hypnosis: Add to Your Clinical Skills

Alternative Treatments for Pain Management Using Hypnosis, October 7th, 2016

Co-Sponsored by the Cincinnati Academy of Professional Psychology and The Cincinnati Society of Clinical Hypnosis

An internationally known expert on pain management, Dabney Ewin, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Surgery and Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine. He utilizes alternative techniques to manage pain, beyond prescription medication. Dr. Ewin has presented this topic at the National Conventions of The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and The Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Clinical hypnosis is used to treat many psychological and mental health issues as well as physical problems. Join us to learn how these techniques can help you and your client. This workshop will be especially helpful for those professionals who have clients who struggle with chronic pain and/or overuse pain medication. All mental health professionals deal with clients who have medical issues (psychosomatic or otherwise) and can benefit from complementary interventions such as hypnosis.

Attendees will learn how to identify five different types of pain and will learn hypnotic and other alternative therapeutic techniques for pain management. These methods of intervention will be presented with an emphasis on the psychopathology of psychosomatic disorders and other related mental health diagnoses as related to pain. Video examples will be utilized to illustrate how to use these new intervention techniques.

Goals/Objectives

• Identify five (5) different types of pain, and the most effective hypnotic techniques to treat each type.
• Participants will learn common causes of psychosomatic disorders, and the hypnotic treatment for each.
• Describe the remarkable effect of early hypnosis on the course of both psychological and physical treatment such as anxiety and burn treatment.
• Recognize the potential danger to the patient of “letting the inmates run the asylum”, i.e., better manage the pain patient’s exposure to the stress of standard medical treatment protocols.

Schedule

8:00 – 8:30   AM       REGISTRATION & SIGN-IN

8:30 – 9:30   AM       Introduction to hypnosis in Mind-Body Healing. Sperry’s Nobel Prize studies.

9:30 – 10:15 AM       Seven (7) different types of psychosomatic disorders and the importance of the Ideomotor diagnosis.

10:15 – 10:30 AM      MORNING BREAK

10:30 – 11:30 AM      Five (5) different kinds of pain problems amenable to hypnotic therapy.

11:30 – 11:45 AM      Benefitting from our clinical mistakes.

11:45 – 1:00   PM       LUNCH (on your own)

1:00 –   1:45   PM      The remarkable effect of early hypnosis on the course of psychological/mental health and physical treatment such as anxiety and burn treatment.

1:45 –   2:15   PM      Using therapeutic regression in hypnosis.

2:15 –   2:30   PM      AFTERNOON BREAK

2:30 –   3:15   PM      Using hypnosis in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and headache pain.

3:15 –   3:45   PM      Laughter and its effects on the immune system and the perception of pain.

3:45 –   4:00   PM      Q & A

4:00 –   4:15   PM      WRAP-UP Q & A and EVALUATIONS

Six CEUs have been approved by the Ohio Psychological Association and the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Boards. 

Pricing is as follows: $105 for paid members of CAPP and the Cincinnati Society of Clinical Hypnosis; $115 for all others (nonmembers). Lunch is on your own and is not covered by your registration fee.

For out of town guests, the Hilton Garden Inn, Loveland, (513-576-6999) is a recommended hotel close to the event center. The event center phone number (Receptions) is 513-697-8999.

Ticketing and Registration:

Tickets for this event can be purchased below via PayPal. The deadline to register is September 30th at which point ticket sales will be closed.

If you prefer to pay by check, please send a check along with your full name, degree, license number, and email address to CAPP at the following address:

7763 Asbury Hills Drive

Cincinnati, OH 45255

Any questions about this event can be directed to CAPP at 513-779-2181.