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The following
article first appeared on CSCT Ltd's website - http://www.counsellingtraining.com and is reproduced with permission.
Posted
June 2004 |
A brief look at the work
of Dr Michael Yapko
Clinical
hypnosis can be
used
to treat depression
By Zoë Fitzgerald-Pool
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Dr Michael Yapko has, for the last thirty years, specialised in the treatment
of depression with clinical hypnosis. In a climate where anti-depressant
medication is still physicians' first treatment choice.
His approach to clinical practice still represents cutting-edge work.
Clinical hypnosis has been directly influenced by the current push for
empirically supported treatments, and in recent years substantial high-quality
research has assessed the effectiveness of hypnosis and its contribution
to improving therapeutic outcome.
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There is also a growing body of evidence demonstrating that, when hypnosis
is part of the treatment process, it catalyses positive clinical outcomes
and generally increases the benefits of established treatments.
"Hypnosis offers a way to conceptualise how human beings construct their
individual realities, and how to interact more effectively with others;
in clinical hypnosis hypnotic processes are employed as agents of effective
communication and change," says Dr. Yapko, who was chosen to write the
sections on Treating Depression and Brief Therapy for the Encyclopaedia
Britannica Medical and Health Annuals.
"Our knowledge of depression has greatly improved in recent years, firmly
establishing the essential role of psychotherapy in treatment.
Patterns of hypnotic influence
Whenever psychotherapy is indicated, so are specific identifiable patterns
of hypnotic influence, since the two are fundamentally inseparable."
It is estimated that at any one time almost 10 per cent of the UK general
population are suffering from depression.
Worldwide the figure rises to over 100 million (Paul Gilbert, Overcoming Depression 1997), and the World Health
Organisation estimates that by the year 2020 depression will be the second
most burdensome illness in the world.
Financially, depression costs the British nation more than
£8 billion annually; included in this cost is provision of health and
medical care, lost production and social security benefits." (Depression
Alliance 1999). |
| About Dr Yapko |
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Yapko, Ph.D. |
is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist
based in Solana Beach, California
He
is internationally recognised for his work in depression and outcome-focused
psychotherapy, and has had a special interest spanning nearly a
quarter century in the intricacies of brief therapy, the clinical
applications of directive methods, and in training therapists to
treat the disorder of major depression.
He
is the author of numerous books, book chapters, and
articles on these subjects, including Treating Depression With Hypnosis:
Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral and Strategic Approaches; Psychological
911: Depression; Hand-Me-Down Blues: How to Stop Depression From
Spreading in Families; Breaking the Patterns of Depression; and
Hypnosis and the Treatment of Depressions.
Dr.
Yapko is a member of the American Psychological Association, a clinical
member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy,
and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Dr
Yapko is a charismatic and engaging speaker, whose recent London
masterclasses (February 2004) elicited high praise from delegate
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About CSCT
CSCT
is one of the UK's main provider of counselling training programmes,
having trained over 50,000 students over more than two decades
working in the UK, Eire and Gibraltar with the education, charity,
health and private sectors.
The
organisation specialises in creating, administering and supporting
nationally approved programmes for counselling trainees, as well
as delivering continuing professional development courses to already
qualified counsellors, and counselling skills training to practitioners
of a range of allied health professions and the private sector. With
a proven track record in its field, CSCT is committed to providing
high quality training that reflects current thinking and research
in the field, and meets the changing needs of the marketplace.
After
hosting Dr Yapko's successful masterclasses in London in February
2004, CSCT Events will be sponsoring his renowned Six-Day Comprehensive
Training Course in Clinical Hypnosis, 6-8 May and 13-15 May 2005. |
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The
author, Zoë Fitzgerald-Pool,
is a UKCP registered psychotherapist who integrates hypnosis in
her clinical practice and is CSCT's Director of Training and Development |
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