Dear Colleague,

I am conducting a research study to complete my Educational Specialist degree, Ed.S., at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. Below please find the information that you will need about this study. Although your participation is not mandatory, I do respectfully request that you consider being part of this study. If you choose not to be part of this study, no response is necessary. If you have any questions please address them to me at steve@stevegjones.com or you may call my office 10am-6pm Tuesday-Thursday at (912) 897-9799.

If you choose to be part of this study please go to the following site and fill out the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=e3neq1i8Mdj7M70dA44DIg_3d_3d

Purpose of this study: Suggestibility tests are a convenient way to determine the degree to which a client will enter a hypnotic state. The HGSHSA (Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Suggestibility, Form A) has been used for over 30 years to determine the level of hypnotic suggestibility of individuals. This test will be easily administered to an individual or a group. This investigator's study will determine the degree to which this test is currently used by practicing hypnotherapists. It will also determine the benefits and challenges faced by hypnotherapists when using this test. The investigator will use a ten-question survey to determine the degree to which hypnotherapists use suggestibility tests when dealing with clients. With results of this survey information, the investigator will be able to evaluate the usefulness of the HGSHSA.

Benefits:

The benefits to society as a result of this study include giving hypnotherapists a greater insight as to the usefulness of suggestibility scales. With this knowledge they will be better equipped to help people in the future.

Duration/Time required from the participant: under one hour.

Statement of Confidentiality: Steve G. Jones and Dr. Charles A. Reavis will have access to the information obtained in this study. Data will be maintained in a secure location for three years and then destroyed.

Right to Ask Questions: Participants have the right to ask questions and have those questions answered. If the participant has questions about this study, please contact the researcher named above or the researcher's faculty advisor, whose contact information is located at the end of the informed consent. For questions concerning your rights as a research participant, contact Georgia Southern University Office of Research Services and Sponsored Programs at 912-478-0843.

Compensation: There is no stipend, credit or other incentive for participation in the study.

Voluntary Participation: People receiving this form do not have to participate in this research; they may end their participation at any time by telling Steve G. Jones, not returning the instrument or other options. Additionally, they do not have to answer any questions that they do not want to answer.

Penalty: There is no penalty for deciding not to participate in the study; participants may decide at any time that they do not want to participate further and may withdraw without penalty or retribution.

Participants must be 18 years of age or older to consent to participate in this research study. If an individual consents to participate in this research study and to the terms above, they should sign their name and indicate the date below.

Title of Project: Application of Suggestibility Tests among Hypnotherapists

Principal Investigator: Steve G. Jones, 107 Picket Row Savannah, GA 31410, (912) 897-9799, steve@stevegjones.com

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Charles A. Reavis, 1045 Golf Club Road Statesboro, GA 30458, (912) 478-5307, carevis@georgiasouthern.edu

Completion and return of the survey implies that you agree to participate and your data may be used in this research.

Sincerely,

Steve G. Jones, M.Ed.
Clinical Hypnotherapist

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Helping People Change Their Lives

Authentic change, especially generative and sustainable change, begins with a change in thinking. Our self-talk or internal dialogue affects our experience in the world. Marilee Adams, the workshop presenter, says our self-talk can be modified dramatically by changing the questions people ask themselves (Question Thinking™). Helping people change their internal questions impacts positively on the way they think, feel and behave.

This dynamic skill-building workshop, introduces the practical methodologies of Question Thinking (QT) through new distinctions, stories, models, tools, and interactive exercises for designing and delivering powerful questions. Question Thinking provides practical tools that empower problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict resolution as well as critical, creative, strategic, and collaborative thinking. This material can also be helpful in working with couples and families.

To read the online brochure for this workshop CLICK HERE

Note from Ron Klein: I attended this workshop earlier this year and can recommend it wholeheartedly. Dr. Adams provides a wealth of valuable, practical material and her "Choice Map" cards are a must tool you will want to give to every client. If you want to speak with me before you decide to participate, call me on my cell: 301-523-5659 or email me at ronkleinonline@gmail.com .

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By: Molly DeLaney, Psy.D. and Rick Voit, Ph.D.

Publisher: Brunner-Routledge, 2004

Drs. Voit and Delaney are both practitioners and trainers of hypnosis. "Hypnosis in Clinical Practice" is a concise manual that outlines the fundamental and essential steps and constructs in the application of hypnosis to the treatment process.

The book includes a brief description of the commonly occurring hypnotic phenomena that are present in symptomatic behavior and how they can be evoked during trance experiences for therapeutic purposes. These included age regression, age progression, anesthesia (and its antithesis, hyperesthesia,) amnesia (and its opposite hypernesia), dissociation (and its opposite association), and catalepsy (and its opposite flexibility/movement).

A helpful table is included displaying these hypnotic phenomena along with their normal, problematic, and dysfunctional behavioral displays. There is a discussion of depth of trance as well as breadth of trance. They highlight breadth of trance as being composed of preconscious hypnotic talent (the idiosyncratic hypnotic phenomena to which an individual enters regularly occurring trance states), self-absorption (through therapeutic, naturalistic utilization of predictable talents and subjective experience the individual enters trance as he establishes focus and absorption into his preconscious talents), self-surrender (where the individual yields to a deeper trance experience through an unconscious reconciliation between adaptive, self-protective resistance and their safely familiar hypnotic phenomena), and hypnotic synchronicity (where the client becomes absorbed in his or her unconscious process and can access and affect healthy or maladaptive manifestations of hypnotic phenomena). It is at this latter level of trance that very deep internal work becomes possible. The authors acknowledge the distinction between depth and breadth as merely semantic however, the distinction between depth and breadth alerts clinicians that clients have inherent hypnotic abilities that can be both utilized and emphasized for the induction of trance. The utilization of truisms as well as the elements of naturalistic inductions is covered. Also, elements of indirect induction and direct induction are offered.

The authors present the notion, that instead of viewing hypnosis in stages, which suggests is a linear process, hypnosis occurs in layers with each layer separate, in and of itself, while simultaneously fused with and influenced by the other layers. There was an excellent section on treatment planning. Basic steps in which both depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms, along with their hypnotic phenomena, were presented. Treatment strategies using the hypnotic phenomenon that correlates with treatment strategies for both anxiety and depression were highlighted.

Book report by: Gary Kelley, Ph.D.

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LAST CALL * LAST CALL

HOW TO GET AMAZING RESULTS WITH OVERWEIGHT CLIENTS

A TWO-DAY WORKSHOP * Presented by Judith Pearson, Ph.D
June 27 - 28, 2009

SKILLS THAT WILL MAKE YOU AN EXPERT - In this two-day workshop, you will learn clinically proven methods for helping your clients lose weight. At the end of the second day, you will walk away with a hypnotherapy-based program for weight reduction that you can implement in your practice immediately. You will develop the skills and strategies that teach overweight clients how to stay motivated, cope with compulsive eating, and activate their own resources for a healthy lifestyle—with methods that can be adapted for each individual. You will learn how to alleviate the basic psychological factors that most-often contribute to obesity.

A New Niche for Your Practice. Obesity now affects 30% of the population, with another 30% overweight. Obesity affects people from all walks of life.

There is a need for practitioners who can offer a safe solution at an affordable cost. Wouldn’t you like to be the therapist in your locale that people turn to for a weight reduction program that works? Wouldn’t you like to be the therapist doctors refer to? That’s what this workshop can do for you.

To read the online brouchure and register for this workshop, CLICK HERE

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“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.”

As it turned out, Americans had a great deal more to fear than that, and their innocent belief that money buys happiness was entirely correct. Psychologists and economists now know that although the very rich are no happier than the merely rich, for the other 99 percent of us, happiness is greatly enhanced by a few quaint assets, like shelter, sustenance and security. Those who think the material is immaterial have probably never stood in a breadline.

To read the rest of this very interesting article published in the New York Times, May 21, 2009, CLICK HERE

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REMINDER * Last Call

May 30, 2009 *** Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Behavioral Health, Inc.

Training and Conference Center

On Line Brochure: CLICK HERE

Therapeutic metaphor – telling stories is an extraordinarily powerful technique for helping people grow and change. Stories work so well because they can communicate directly with the unconscious. The listener frequently experiences spontaneous flashes of insight, fresh perspectives, solutions to problems, and discovers new ways to utilize personal resources for coping and living life more successfully. Therapeutic metaphor has many applications in psychotherapy and is used by good communicators in every profession.

The material in this workshop is derived from the work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., the renowned hypnotherapist, and other tellers of teaching tales throughout the ages. Erickson is noted for his innovative approach to psychotherapy. He utilized therapeutic metaphor and story telling as well as hypnosis extensively, and coined the term Brief Therapy for his approach of bringing about therapeutic changes for his patients, often in just a few sessions. Dr. Erickson thought of the unconscious as having its own unique awareness, interests, responses, and learning and that it is resourceful, creative and solution oriented.

This Workshop to Help You:

• Create and deliver effective therapeutic metaphors
• Learn to use anecdotes, jokes and humor
• Use storytelling to create change in your clients
• Change the metaphors people live by
• Acquire metaphors and stories from books, movies, and
other sources for your professional use

To read the online brochure and register, CLICK HERE

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