Quality of Life in High-Impact Chronic Pain: The Role of Hypnosis (New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis)
June 28 - June 29
Organization: New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis
Website: https://nesch.org/event-6197234
Event Title: Quality of Life in High-Impact Chronic Pain: The Role of Hypnosis
Dates: June 28-29, 2025, 10AM-5PM EST (both days)
Location: Virtual
CE: 12
Contact: neschmsc@gmail.com
Abstract: If you work with folks with chronic pain, you know that for some it moves beyond being an annoyance and starts to take over their lives. Over time, this group do less and less, see fewer and fewer people, enjoy fewer and fewer things, worry and rage more and more, and their life shrinks down to just their pain and its effects. The CDC has recently labeled this pattern as High-Impact Chronic Pain. Providers from both the physical and the mental side often feel helpless and overwhelmed when confronted with these patients. Fortunately, Dr. Hall and Dr. Vair have years of experience with this population and have learned ways that strategic education and intervention, centered around clinical hypnosis, can turn the tide for these patients so that their lives start to grow again as the pain shrinks. Join NESCH for a 2-day, 12-hour online workshop on using clinical hypnosis to improve quality of life in those most impacted by chronic pain. Day 1 centers on how pain changes us internally, while Day 2 focuses on how it impacts us externally, and both offer hypnotic and other tools for promoting positive change.
Learning Objectives:
Identify three differences between acute and chronic pain
Define the relationship between pain and suffering
Describe 3 crucial points of information that patients need to learn to shift the conversation about chronic pain in a more helpful direction
Identify 8 brain regions that offer possibilities to use clinical hypnosis to change the experience of pain
Demonstrate the use of a structured interview to determine the relative importance of each brain region in the patient’s experience of their pain and guide hypnotic treatment
Define the foundational aspects of a Whole Health approach to care, including how to utilize this framework to engage individuals in active self-management of chronic pain
Identify relationships between established, evidence-informed approaches for the use of hypnosis and the Whole Health approach to care
Identify ways to enhance clinical practice through utilizing person-centered hypnotic approaches
Define eight aspects of personal well-being that can be addressed in chronic pain using hypnosis
State 2 brief “elevator speeches” to describe this approach to treating chronic pain, one for professional colleagues, and the second for patients and loved ones
