Aug

SCEH 2016 Conference -- Benefits of Attending

Earn CE and CME credits to satisfy licensure requirements
Become a better, more effective clinician
Expand your thinking by hearing from our distinguished faculty and presenters
Forge new relationships for collaboration with leading researchers and emerging young professionals
Help your patients/clients reach their goals and achieve positive outcomes
Get answers to your challenges in face to face discussions with colleagues
Practice your skills and take them to the next level
Explore new solutions by reviewing new, more effective methods
Expand your thinking by hearing from our distinguished faculty and presenters
Integrate hypnosis into your practice to offer patients more options
Practice your skills and take them to the next level

Continuing Education/Workshops

Clinical & Medical Hypnosis Workshops are offered at 3 levels:

Basic/Introductory Workshop in Hypnosis

Intermediate Hypnosis Workshop/Enhancing Skills/Fine-tuning Techniques

Advanced Workshops (View Advanced Workshops)

Scientific Program

This program features research presentations and symposia on issues in research and practice, a poster session and banquet. Topics include:

A Pilot Study of the Spiritual Counseling Method of Depth Hypnosis in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Anxiety and Well-Being
Accept or Change? An RCT of Mindfulness vs. Hypnotic Suggestion for Acute Pain inthe Hospital Setting
Age Regression to Primary Process Thinking: Topographic or Temporal?
Attentional Networks Regulate Awareness and Metacognition
Contemporary Investigations into Clark Hull's Conclusions about Hypnosis: Heteroactive Hypersuggestibility and the Practice Effect
Does Hypnosis Decrease Sympathetic Arousal? A Confirmatory Study.
Examining Psychophysiological Changes During Formal Hypnotizability Testing
Hypnosis and Chronic Pain
Hypnosis and Placebo
Hypnosis as a Viable Tool for Modulating Visual Awareness: Displacing the Threshold for Access to Consciousness
Hypnotic Susceptibility and Placebo Responders: An Unknown Threat to the Integrity of Randomized Clinical Trials?
Hypnotism as a Function of Trance State Effects, Expectancy and Suggestibility: An Italian Replication
Music and Suggestion to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care: Preliminary Findings
Neuropathic Pain After Guillain-Barre' Syndrome
Pain, Panic and Anxiety: Symptoms of Medically Activated Trauma in Cancer Patients
Personality Predictors of Pendulum Performance
Placebo Response Correlates With Hypnotic Suggestibility
Preparing a Patient for a Five-year Course of Bladder Cystoscopy .
Revisiting the Construct Validity of the Harvard Group Scale
The Challenge of Central Sensitization in Chronic Pain: Clinical Hypnosis with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and Interstitial Cystitis (IC/BPS
The Effects of Low Dose Ketamine on Hynotizability
The Effects of Presenting Hypnosis as a Nondeceptive Placebo: Attitudes, Hypnotic Responses, and Subjective Experiences
Toward an Integrative Model of Hypnosis: My Personal Journey
What Changed? A Data Analysis/Integration of Four Instruments Measuring Results of the Longitudinal Observational Study: Applying Clinical Hypnosis Techniques to ADD Traits & Symptoms

Keynotes include:

Nicholas A Covino, PsyD, President, William James College, Newton, MA on A Role for Hypnosis in Light of Health Care Reform
James Carmody PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA on Being in the Moment: Mindfulness Eases the Anxiety of Being Human
Terence M. Keane, PhD, Associate Chief of Staff and Division Director, Behavioral Science Division, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean for Research at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA on Recent Advances in the Psychological Treatment of PTSD
Guy H. Montgomery, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Oncological Sciences, Cancer Prevention and Control on Hypnosis in Cancer Care: Past, Present and Future

Steven Jay Lynn, PhD, Professor, Psychology Department, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY on Toward an Integrative Model of Hypnosis: My Personal Journey
BANQUET SPEAKER: Elvira V. Lang, MD, FSIR, FSCEH, CEO, Comfort Talk® and Former Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School on Training Thousands?