BSCAH is excited to introduce an updated and streamlined training format for 2025, designed to provide a comprehensive and flexible learning experience for healthcare professionals in adjunctive clinical hypnosis.
All new trainees will now be required to complete the BSCAH module on Therapeutic Communication prior to their training. This module usually takes under two hours to complete and will give an understanding of how to avoid nocebic language and give more effective positive suggestion. It also covers building rapport, the utilisation of the trance equivalent state and some informal hypnotic techniques.
BSCAH has redesigned its training approach to improve accessibility and flexibility. Instead of the three online weekend modules BSCAH will have one weekend online module ‘Introduction to clinical hypnosis’ supported by self-directed online learning where you can utilise various different resources dependent on your preferred way of learning, such as recorded lectures, articles etc
BSCAH will then run one day on-line workshops covering pain, phobias and past trauma, and functional disorders, once or twice a year.
BSCAH will also develop various other one day workshops and online modules on a variety of other topics such as neurodiversity, metaphor, oncology and palliative care etc
The ‘Introduction to clinical hypnosis’ self-directed learning will cover ‘What is hypnosis – Formal and informal trance – Signs of trance – History of hypnosis – Theories of hypnosis – Hypnotisability, scales, suggestibility – Selection and preparation of the patient, including consent – Safety of hypnosis including abreaction management’ and is expected to take about 5-6 hours to complete. Trainees will be required to complete an online quiz to confirm their knowledge and receive their certificate of completion.
The ‘Introduction to clinical hypnosis’ online face to face learning will cover the practical applications and techniques of clinical hypnosis such as PMR, Breathing induction, modified Elman, Spiegel eye roll – Deepening & Special place – Self-hypnosis – Positive suggestion/ego strengthening – Anchoring – Concept of Ideomotor signalling (body language and patient feedback) – Ethical issues’
BSCAH will also run two one-day face to face practical workshops in 2025 to support the online learning; one in London in July and one in Liverpool in October.
The one-day workshop on pain will look at hypnotic techniques suitable for both acute and procedural pain as well as chronic pain. The phobias and past trauma workshop will look at ways of resolving phobias and negative emotional events with desensitisation and dissociated imagery such as time road and rewind. The BSCAH workshop on Functional Disorders will cover use of ideomotor signalling, reframing including the classic six step reframe, and various hypnotic techniques for managing functional disorders including gut related disorders.
The above workshops will be delivered online face to face and cover the core curriculum previously delivered in modules 2 and 3.
Trainees can complete the ‘Introduction to clinical hypnosis’ and then add different workshops as is appropriate to their clinical field and interest.
BSCAH is also running training courses tailored to particular specialties such as Anaesthetists and those working with Gut directed hypnotherapy and these are in addition to the training detailed above.
BSCAH remains committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based hypnosis training that meets the evolving needs of healthcare professionals. Join us in 2025 and enhance your clinical practice with expert-led, structured adjunctive clinical hypnosis training.