Diploma in Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy - REBHP

28 Diploma in Cognitive-Behavioural HypnotherapyLearning Outcomes4.3. Evaluate the implications of relevant legislation for their practice.QUESTION 7: What are the main pieces of legislation relevant to the practice of hypnotherapy, and how do theyaffect your work?Recommended Resources: Stage 1 Manual: ―Hypnotherapy & the Law.‖Learning Outcomes4.8. Reflect on appropriate issues in applied ethics in relation to hypno-psychotherapy.QUESTION 8: Describe three of the main ethical dilemmas which you think you may or have faced as ahypnotherapist and evaluate the issues involved.Recommended Resources: Stage 1 Manual: ―Professionalism & Ethics.‖Learning Outcomes5.5. Evaluate the role of reflective practice and research evidence in relation to hypno-psychotherapy.QUESTION 9: Briefly summarise and evaluate the role both of reflective practice and empirical research inrelation to evidence-based practice in hypnotherapy.Stage 1 Manual: ―Professionalism & Ethics.‖ REBHP Guidance Leaflet on Evidence-Based Practice.Learning Outcomes5.9. Interpret contemporary research on hypno-psychotherapy through an understanding of relevant concepts in contemporary research methods.QUESTION 10: Provide a brief review and evaluation of a recent research study published in a peer-reviewedhypnotherapy research journal, such as IJCEH.Recommended Resources: The International Journal for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis (www.IJCEH.com). Copies ofIJCEH are available to registrants of REBHP or can be purchased directly from Taylor Francis Ltd.Alternatively, the PDF copy of a recent (major) meta-analysis of hypnotherapy outcomes can be found at the link below,http://www.hypnose-kikh.de/metaanalyse/Flammer2004Metaanalysis.PDFErschienen in Contemporary Hypnosis (2003), 179 – 197.‗ON THE EFFICACY OF HYPNOSIS: A META-ANALYTIC STUDY‘Erich Flammer and Walter BongartzDepartment of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, University of Konstanz, GermanyAbstractFrom 444 studies published until 2002 that investigated the efficacy of hypnosis, 57 randomised clinical studies were selected thatcompared patients treated exclusively by hypnosis to an untreated control group (or to a group of patients treated by conventionalmedical procedures). The 57 studies were integrated into a meta-analysis that yielded a weighted average post-treatment effect size ofd = 0.56 (medium effect size). For hypnotic treatment of ICD-10 codable disorders (32 studies) the calculation of the weighted meaneffect size resulted in d = 0.63. These estimates are conservative since all variables of a given study were used. Most of the studiesemployed methods of the classic approach to hypnosis. In order to obtain an estimate to which extent non-clinical factors (designquality,way of comparison of dependent variables) have an influence on the effect sizes, effect sizes were computed for all studies ofthe original 444 studies that reported the necessary statistical information (N = 133). For those studies with an average effect size of d= 1.07 a massive influence of non-clinical factors was demonstrated with a range from d = 0.56 for randomised studies with groupcomparisons to d = 2.29 for non-randomised studies using pre-postcomparisons. Out of the 57 randomised studies, only 6 studiesreported numerical values for the correlation between hypnotic suggestibility and treatment outcome with a mean correlation of r = .44.