Palliative care and palliative hypnosis with a special focus on using clinical hypnosis to treat the symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (ASCH ASMW Pre-Conference)

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This presentation will discuss palliative care and how it differs from hospice care. Details of how palliative care can help seriously ill patients and their family caregivers will be provided. A method to determine the goals of medical care will be presented, as well as how to use these goals to create an effective treatment plan. Breakout room sessions will allow participants to practice determining the goals of medical care using this method. This will be followed by a discussion of palliative hypnosis and its use in treating the many symptoms experienced by seriously ill patients. A discussion of the speaker’s experience using clinical hypnosis for the symptomatic treatment of ALS will follow. There will be ample time to answer questions at the end of the presentation.

CE Credits: 3

Speaker Bio

Dr. John Franklin is a board-certified physician in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is the former Medical Director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Service at the Charleston VA Medical Center. He is a Certified Hospice Medical Director and a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is an Affiliated Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina and an Approved Consultant of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Dr. Franklin has been a hypnosis trainer for the clinical staff of VA Medical Centers across the nation. He has also run an annual medical hypnosis mentoring group in the Department of Veterans Affairs for several years. He has a special interest in using clinical hypnosis for the symptomatic treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis published his case series of 30 veterans with ALS treated symptomatically with clinical hypnosis in November 2023. He has been an ASCH faculty member for ASCH trainings and retired from the Charleston VA Medical Center in December 2023. Following retirement, he remains busy teaching clinical hypnosis. He also opened a small private medical hypnosis practice and volunteers in a free medical clinic for indigents and immigrants providing both primary care and clinical hypnosis. Dr. Franklin is a current member of the ASCH Clinical Hypnosis Education and Training Committee (CHET).