Module Descriptors
HYPNOSIS: PERSONALITY TYPES AND EFFECT ON TREATMENT
PPDE60181
Key Facts
Faculty of Health Sciences
Level 6
15 credits
Contact
Leader: Angela Carryer
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 25
Independent Study Hours: 125
Total Learning Hours: 150
Assessment
  • COURSEWORK -ESSAY weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Resources
Library
IT resources



Module Learning Strategies
Contact Hours: (25)
10 hours Interactive Lectures
10 hours Group/Individual activities/reflection
5 hours Feedback from activities

Independent Study Hours: (125)
13 hours Self Analysis
56 hours Reading and Reflection
56 hours Writing Assignment.
Module Additional Assessment Details
A critical reflective essay focusing on a consultation with two clients from the student's area of professional practice focusing on a hypnotherapeutic intervention. (Learning outcomes 1,2 and 3)

Formative Assessment:
Formative assessment will involve group discussion, seminar involvement and the use of tutorials to clarify, explore and critically discuss the focus of the reflective essay, use of personal log book or including the reflective diary.
Module Indicative Content
This module will develop the student's knowledge and understanding of a range of personality types, the measurement of hypnotisability and its connection to personality and the importance of personalities for rapport and implications for treatment.

The indicative content will include:

Measurement of hypnotisability and its connection to personality
Building Rapport and the use of suggestion
Hypnosis in the use of pain.
Hypnosis for smoking and over-eating
The use of guided imagery
Reframing
The use of therapeutic metaphor and story-telling
Module Texts
Pateros, J. (2006) How Hypnosis Works: The Unconscious Mind Pub: New Hypnosis Institute, San Alselmo-California.
Simmons, D, Potter, C, Temple G (2007) Hypnosis and Communication in Dental Practice, UK, Quintessence Publishing Co. Limited
Speigal, H. Speigal, D. (2002) Trance and Treatment Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd Ed) Arlington: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Yapko (2004) Trancework, An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis, UK, Brunner-Routledge
Module Special Admissions Requirements
Students who are registered members, or are working towards appropriate clinical professional membership, so that they can become members of BSCAH (British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis).