Hudson Scripts & Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84590-400-5
Verlag: Crown House Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

A handbook for therapists that contains everything needed when using hypnotherapy with children and young people. In addition to providing a collection of highly usable hypnotic scripts for children from six to sixteen, it offers an easy to follow, solution - focused way to structure treatment sessions. In addition, background information, advice, contra - indications and possible pitfalls are provided on common and not so common problems that children may present.

Lynda Hudson, a former teacher, is a clinical hypnosis practitioner who specialises in working with children. She is a freelance lecturer and conference speaker on the use of hypnosis with children. Her latest venture is on-line training which has been proving very successful. For details see https://www.firstwayforward.com/ Lynda has also created a large collection of hypnotic audios with ranges for adults, teenagers, children and very young children. These are available as CDs and MP3s from www.inspirational-hypnosisdownloads.com and now also on her app Lynda Hudson Hypnosis on the Apple app store.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hudson, Lynda

Leseproben

Praise for Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children

Created from a combination of years of dedicated training and personal experience in practice, this book demonstrates the author’s excellent understanding of the uniqueness and complexity of each young client and offers the reader a perfectly constructed springboard from which to execute their own individual therapeutic delivery.

The text is liberally salted with beautifully crafted example scripts that evoke the memories and imaginings of childhood so vividly that they may even address those unresolved issues that lurk within each of us as adult readers.

This is a totally accessible manual, written with an obvious passion and sensitivity for the needs of the child and mercifully avoiding the unnecessary use of technical language wherever possible.

The author states in her preface that “whether you already work with children or are just thinking of doing so, this book is aimed at you”, and I can categorically confirm that she hits her mark with unnerving accuracy. I would also suggest that many therapists (and, by extension, their adult clients) are likely to benefit from this book even if they do not routinely work with children and consequently it would make a perfect addition to any practitioner’s library.

William Broom, Chief Executive, The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council

At last, the book our profession has been waiting for, one those of us who know Lynda Hudson have been encouraging her to write for a long time. Lynda is the acknowledged expert on the use of hypnotherapy with children and her many years of experience are shared and reflected in the information, protocols, and creative and inventive scripts contained within this volume. Although aimed at the hypnotherapist, the broad spectrum of Lynda’s work found herein will be of immense value to therapists of all disciplines, providing ideas, encouragement and that often sought after source of sensible advice. Although it may seem a cliché to say, Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children really is an essential addition to any therapist’s library.

Peter Mabbutt FBSCH, Director of Studies for the London College of Clinical Hypnosis, co-author of Hypnotherapy for Dummies

This is a thorough, creatively composed and eminently practical book. Ms. Hudson has taken the principles of solution-focused therapy, oriented them skillfully towards the problems of children and adolescents and thereby produced myriad scripts and strategies that both illustrate and instruct. The scripts that form the heart of the book are appropriately nuanced and written flexibly allowing the clinician to adapt them to the individual child across a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Hudson’s enthusiastic, compassionate and affirming voice comes through the text of the scripts. I particularly appreciate the author’s persistent emphasis on ego-strengthening and the modeling of permissive and responsive language which is central to hypnosis, particularly with young people. The framing of each set of scripts with an overview of the clinical problems for which they can be used, helpful strategies for engaging the child and parents, as well as extracts of the salient points of each chapter provide a unique depth to this text. Practical points for the parents of children with separation anxiety, the list of dissociation strategies, ego-strengthening guidelines and a host of other useful tips add to the book’s value as a desk-side reference. Taken as a whole, this rich volume captures the confident, positive, warm and imaginative spirit that embodies creative hypnosis with young people then distills it into an enjoyable and practical solution. I will use it a lot.

Laurence I. Sugarman, MD
President, American Board of Medical Hypnosis, Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics & American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Co-Author/Editor – Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents, Producer – Hypnosis in Pediatric Practice: Imaginative Medicine in Action

As a teacher/trainer of hypnotherapy practice for 37 years, I have seen many books which address aspects of the work. There has always been a gap in the available literature concerning the use of hypnotherapy with children.

Now, hypnotherapist Lynda Hudson’s new book, Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children, supplies the much-needed approaches and techniques for working with children. Written without academic or scientific jargon, the many scripts for a great variety of juvenile problems are precise and useful tools. With the increasing recognition and growing popularity of hypnotherapy, parents are realizing that medicating their children to modify behaviour is often a mistake. Behaviour is subject to change and hypnotherapy can quickly pinpoint and reshape the form and nature of it. Children respond to hypnosis more easily than many adults and respond to suggestions of change with enthusiasm. This is a book for every hypnotherapist’s library, especially those who work with children or would like to learn how to work with them.

Gil Boyne, Executive Director, American Council of Hypnotist Examiners Fellow, National Council for Hypnotherapy

Scripts & Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children is a valuable resource for clinicians working hypnotically with children. Ms. Hudson’s stories are delightfully imaginative; her language is permissive and she includes ego-strengthening in every script to foster self-esteem and self-efficacy.

The book offers the reader scripts and strategies for a variety of common pediatric problems including anxiety, sleeping problems, habit disorders, enuresis and encopresis. Robots, fairies, treasure hunts and space ships contained in the metaphors will all entertain the child while the carefully crafted therapeutic message is embedded in the story thus cleverly bypassing any resistance to change.

The strategies and scripts offered by Ms. Hudson can be used to enhance a clinician’s existing area of expertise. The scripts are developmentally appropriate for the suggested ages and may be used verbatim or adjusted and incorporated into the clinician’s own personal style. When working with children, the skilled practitioner must be flexible and open to the child’s own creativity and spontaneity. Nearly anyone can learn how to induce a trance and certainly with children it is very easy, but the skilled and talented clinician will use the trance state to access the child’s inherent strengths and resources. The true magic of therapeutic change lies with the child. They possess the creative genius. The success of providing the child with the tools to discover the magic and resources within depends in large part on the therapeutic relationship, rapport and alliance between the clinician and the child. Ms Hudson’s book gives the clinician warm, caring and developmentally appropriate strategies that help foster rapport and successful hypnotherapeutic interventions with children. Ms. Hudson has provided the hypnosis world with a wonderful resource for working with children.

Linda Thomson, PhD, MSN, CPNP,
Author of Harry the Hypno-potamus, Volumes 1 and 2

I have often looked for a book like this on working with children, and this is an excellent volume. Lynda’s easy to read style helps make this both an easy as well as an informative read. All-in-all a well structured and easy to read book which will form a welcome addition to any hypnosis practitioner’s reference library.

Ursula James, Visiting Teaching Fellow, Oxford University Medical School Honorary Lecturer at St Georges Medical School & Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Phd researcher – London Metropolitan University, Author of the Clinical Hypnosis Textbook, You Can Be Amazing and You Can Think Yourself Thin

Lynda Hudson is clearly an expert in her field. Here she has provided the hypnotherapist with a much needed comprehensive and practical guide to working with children. This book is an invaluable resource for any therapist and I highly recommend her strategies which I have used with great success in my own practise. This book will now be required reading for all our students of hypnotherapy.

Christina Mills, Founder and Director,
The Isis School of Integrated Hypnotherapy

This comprehensive handbook for hypnotherapists and other professionals in the health care sector provides an extensive collection of sparkling crystal clear scripts and strategies with a problem-and age-appropriate approach for 5–15-year-old youngsters. Any difficulties children of this age group may encounter on their way to further development, whether of a physical, mental, educational, emotional, or behavioural nature is richly provided for by tailormade solution focused approaches. Lynda Hudson, a very experienced and highly professional therapist and lecturer, stresses repeatedly the importance of ‘going with the flow’ of information provided by the young clients themselves, speaking...