Hypnosis Training Course for Health Professionals:

"Hypnosis Treatment for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders"
Research Triangle Park, NC
November 11-14, 2004

Jointly Sponsored by the UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders
and the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

• This unique course provides all the training that you need to start treating GI disorders effectively with hypnosis
• The whole course (Part A + Part B), is suited clinicians who do not have past hypnosis training
• Part B is for clinicians who have already had prior ASCH-approved training in hypnosis
• Taught by nationally and internationally recognized experts in hypnosis and functional GI disorders
• Suited for a range of health professions: Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, psychologists, clinical social workers, and others
• The training is ASCH approved, and Continuing Education and CME credits are available

For complete online course information and registration for the course, click here.

To open the course brochure in PDF format, click here

Top 10 Reasons to Attend this Course:

1. This course is a unique opportunity to learn from Dr. Peter Whorwell, the world’s top expert in GI hypnosis, the details of the method that has been used so successfully by his Manchester team in England. The Manchester team has published more research than any other group on hypnosis for GI disorders, often in top journals, including placebo-controlled trials and large long-term follow-up studies up to five or more years. They have shown remarkable success rates and long-term effectiveness. This training is usually not available in North America.

2. Learn how to best use the standardized hypnosis protocol for IBS developed by Palsson et al. and empirically tested in three studies for maximum therapy success.

3. Learn all you need to effectively treat two of the most common functional GI disorders, IBS and functional dyspepsia, with hypnosis. Each disorder affects more than 10% of the general population. Recent studies show that hypnosis has a higher success rate than any other treatment approach for both disorders, with the great majority of patients responding to treatment and remaining improved for years (cognitive-behavioral therapy is the only treatment rivaling this effectiveness).

4. Learn how to treat individual symptoms of the GI tract, from heartburn to diarrhea, with suggestions and imagery.

5. Get access to a unique secure and HIPAA compliant online evaluation system for functional GI disorders created at UNC-Chapel Hill, which you can use to assess the patients’ symptoms at baseline, measure patient symptom progress and quality of life changes objectively throughout treatment, and print out summary reports and graphs for documentation of therapeutic changes. This makes unbiased and reliable evaluations of patients quick and easy.

6. Learn about the nature, diagnosis and standard medical management of functional GI disorders from three of the leading experts in the field (Drs. Douglas Drossman, William Whitehead and Peter Whorwell).

7. Learn clinical approaches from nationally prominent teachers in clinical hypnosis (Drs. Marc Oster and Sheryll Daniel are past president and president elect, respectively, of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis).

8. Plenty of opportunity for discussions with the course faculty.

9. Get a thorough overview of the research literature supporting hypnosis as treatment option for gastrointestinal disorders, including practical handouts and article reprints.

10. Get advice and support after the course: Participation in two live online chatroom sessions, held about three and six months after the course, is included in the course fee.