Stage Three Course Details

 

Entry to Stage Three of the NCHP training programme is confined to those students who hold the Certificate in Hypno‑Psychotherapy. Stage Three is the Diploma stage, at the completion of which students are required to undergo a practical examination and submit a dissertation leading to the award of the Diploma in Hypno‑Psychotherapy, with the designating letters DHP(NC), and enables practitioners to apply for Full membership of the NRHP ‑ designating letters MNRHP.  The aim of this Stage Three course is to further the students' knowledge and ethical practice of hypno‑psychotherapy.  The syllabus is drawn from the following:

·      Psychological theories of depression and anxiety

·      Cognitive Therapy

·      Cognitive Hypnotherapy Autogenic Training

·      Personal Construct Theory and the Repertory

     Grid technique

·      Imagery techniques

·     A weekend devoted to the Foundation Course in Neuro‑Linguistic Programming.*

 

In accordance with UKCP requirements and consistent with NCHP practice over many years, such topics as Ethics, Human Development and Sexuality are integral to the course. (See page 15 for more information.)

 

Students are required to attend the four weekends of the course (44 hours' attendance), usually at monthly intervals, and undertake a comprehensive programme of home study. The fourth weekend is devoted to the practical exam.

 

Dissertation

With regard to the dissertation submission, within the context of hypno‑psychotherapy, there are various ways of conducting research. Many dissertations submitted by NCHP students involve secondary research, i.e., a review, or meta‑analysis, of the literature and pre‑existing research reports. As secondary research does not involve working directly with human participants it is not necessary for such research to be considered in the planning stages by an ethics committee. However, students undertaking secondary research might wish to consider the social and moral implications of their work and whether the outcome of the research is likely to bring positive benefits.

Primary research, where first hand data or information are being collected directly from human participants, must be considered in the planning stages by an ethics committee. Such research may be either experimentally or clinically based. For hypno‑psychotherapists research will usually be clinically based with case studies forming the data/information base.

 

Ethics Committee

The NCHP Committee on Ethical Research considers primary research proposals put forward by NCHP students. The aim of the committee is to ensure that students and members are aware of the ethical implications of any primary research they undertake and that any such research conforms with generally accepted ethical and moral principles.

 

Stage Three students will be given copies of the ethical guidelines upon which their research proposals will be assessed. They reflect current thinking on the ethics of social science/psychological research and incorporate extracts from the British Psychological Society's ethical guidelines.

 

Once the research proposal has been approved by the Ethics Committee the research for the dissertation can go ahead, with the work being submitted in due course for academic assessment in the usual way by the NCHP's independent external markers.

 

Also, the student will be required (i) to warrant that the subject matter of the dissertation is his/ her original work and that he/she holds the copyright therein and (ii) to grant the NCHP an irrevocable free licence under the copyright to publish the document if it so wishes, provided that the NCHP undertakes to identify the author and his/her copyright.

 

*Although not compulsory for examination, the Neuro‑Linguistic Programming weekend is an essential component of the course. It must be completed, satisfactorily, for the letter of attendance and the NCHP Diploma to be awarded. Satisfactory completion is measured by the course tutor's continuous assessment over the weekend. Where necessary, the tutor may recommend that the weekend be repeated (at no extra fee, of course) until satisfactory completion is achieved.

Stage Three Course Outline

(45 Open University‑specific points at Post Graduate Level)

 

Stage Three of the NCHP training builds upon the previous two stages and aims to further students' knowledge and ethical practice of hypno‑psychotherapy.

Please note: Tape recorders are not allowed on the course.

 

Weekend One

Confidentiality and Ethics

Cognitive psychotherapy ‑ background and development

The therapeutic alliance

Cognitions and emotions

Cognitive model of depression

Cognitive model of anxiety

Advice on dissertation writing

 

 

Weekend Two

Cognitive psychotherapy ‑ therapy in action

Cognitive hypnotherapy

(plus some aspects of: Personal Construct Theory; Repertory Grid

Technique; Autogenic Training and Imagery Techniques)

 

 

Weekend Three

Neuro‑Linguistic Programming ‑ Foundation Course

Well‑formed outcomes

Sensory systems

Submodalities

NLP and self‑hypnosis

Resource anchoring procedure

Six‑step reframing

 

[In accordance with UKCP requirements and consistent with NCHP practice over many years, such topics as Ethics, Human Development and Sexuality are covered throughout the training.

 

 

Weekend Four

Practical exam ‑ in three parts

 

Part one: therapy tape submitted prior to exam day

 

Part two: the consultation

 Using their own pre‑prepared documentation, students conduct a consultation with another student with a real or role‑played problem and take a full case history. Overnight homework ‑ Writing up case history and preparation of treatment and homework schedules

 

Part three: the therapy

Students conduct what they consider to be the most appropriate therapy for the problem presented in part two and submit written justification for using the chosen therapy.