Sussex Hypnotherapy Research Centre...

 

 

This hypnosis scripts creator and treatment planner is designed to be used as a guide by training hypnotherapists or newly qualified or under confident hypnotherapists. The idea would be that you answer questions about the client and then have a hypnotherapy script and treatment plan created for you. You can copy this to word or notepad (or similar programme) and then go through it editing it to make it even more specific to the client you are working with. So if something in the script doesn't sound like it would work with the client; you can take it out. If you feel the wording needs altering a little to make it more specific - change it. If you want to add something to the script - add it. Likewise with the treatment plan. You can read it and edit out what you don't think would suit the client you are working with (although remember some things that you may think won't work might work  or might be paradoxical in nature). The treatment plan is also something that may apply over many sessions. It isn't expected that you would necessarily do everything recommended in the treatment plan all in a single session. It could be for example having them leave a first session with a task to practice a breathing technique. Then after the second session they leave and have to keep a log of how they have been feeling each day etc. The treatment plan is created to show everything on one page that can be done to help the client overcome the presenting difficulties rather than what you should do all in a single session.

 

Another unique aspect of the 'Hypnotherapy Script Creator and Treatment Planner' is that it is based on the mind of Dan Jones and what he think and does and looks for in therapy sessions. A large part of this is looking for patterns and going above the problem to look at how the problem is managing to exist and what is keeping it in place. So although there are over 50 different specified issues it is possible to not use any of these and still make a hypnosis script for the client and a treatment plan. The questions are designed to help therapists get a deeper understanding of the client and their problem rather than thinking 'OK I have a smoker in today lets get the smoking script out'. The idea is that you can fill in misused or unused natural skills - like the ability to relax; the ability to step outside an issue; the ability to tolerate uncertainty etc - and you can fill in unmet or inappropriately met basic needs - like not getting enough attention; or getting too much attention; or not feeling in control of life events; or trying to have too much control etc - and you can fill in questions about the pattern or process - like the client tries to stop but the harder they try the more it happens; or the client spends lots of their time negitively emotionally thinking about things etc. Generally most problems are almost like the clients own therapy. They may smoke to relax, or smoke to socialise or smoke as a way of starting conversations, or smoke for something they feel they are controlling, etc. All these are taking just one problem and showing how it can be meeting different needs or serving different purposes. So these smoking clients would all come presenting the same issue 'I want to quit smoking' but all be smoking for a different reason. If you help the smoker that smokes to relax to learn new ways to relax they can then quit smoking as it isn't needed anymore; or the smoker that uses it to socialise can be taught social skills, or the smoker using it to start conversations can be taught new ways to start conversations, or the smoker wanting to get some control in their life can address issues that they feel are out of their control and how these can be resolved. So even without mentioning the smoking a script can be created using the 'Hypnotherapy Script Creator & Treatment Planner' that will help the smoker overcome their problem. With some clients this maybe how you would want to create the scripts. So sticking with the smoker. You may want to firstly not put a cross in any of the needs questions etc just the beginning questions then the relevant smoking answer then the relevant 'ending the session' answer. And this may be your script for session one. Session two may be answering the beginning questions, not the smoking questions but instead answering one or two of the other questions relating to needs or natural abilities that the smoker needs to develop to remain a non-smoker. And you may want to then pick other relevant answers for other future sessions (and you will also be getting treatment ideas to help with this as well). And if someone presents a problem that isn't mentioned on the 'Hypnotherapy Script Creator & Treatment Planner' then you may just go with creating a script based on what needs are either being met by the problem or not being met that perhaps is leading to the problem; or skills and abilities that are either missing or being misused etc. And you may even decide as you read through the generated script to add in some of your own ideas and suggestions that are specific to the presenting issue.

 

The idea is for the Hypnotherapist to feel they OWN the script and to help therapists to develop themselves and their confidence and to interact with the scripts and treatment ideas created.

 

Praise from Hypnotherapists for the 'Hypnotherapy Script Creator & Treatment Planner'