Research to show the effectiveness of SFBT

There has been much research to demonstrate the effectiveness of SFBT that shows its success rate to be 60% covering all social classes.

 1991 Steve DeShazer noted in his book ‘Putting Differences to Work’ , that out of a study of 29 cases,23, or 80% reported that they had either resolved their original difficulty or made significant progress towards resolving it. At 18 months success rate was 86% with 67% reporting their improvements also. The average number of sessions was 4.6 and those clients who had 4 or more sessions did better.

 “Keys to solutions in brief therapy” 1985 – Steve DeShazer. This research study consisted of 28 cases having received formula first session task. After a six month follow up, 23 or 82% improved, 11 others solved other problems all in an average of 5 sessions.

 Lee MY 1997 – from the American Journal of Family Therapy

This was a study of solution – focused brief family therapy: outcomes and issues on 59 children with various problems. At a 6 month follow up call by independent raters, 64.9% improved (achieved their goals54.4%, partial goal 10.5%). Therapy was over an average of 5.5 sessions.

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No Smoking Day is here again!!

So, No Smoking Day is here again!

We all know how bad smoking is for us, we all know we shouldn't do it! But sometimes it's hard for us to stop. This is because the part of our brain that deals with our survival doesn't know just how dangerous smoking can be for us, if it did, it wouldn't let us smoke.
Smoking is 10% physically addictive and the other 90% is in our minds. The addictive substance in cigarettes is Nicotine - so how can Nicotine substitutes be any good for us? yes we stop the fags but we are still addicted - to Nicotine. The nicotine acts as a poor substitute for the chemical in our brains that allows us to cope with life, So the longer we smoke - the more we need to get a good feeling.
Hypnotherapy allows us to teach the subconscious just how dangerous smoking can be for us and thus our survival part of our brain will then help us stop smoking! Great, isn't it?!
If you want to stop amoking - the easy way, then find a local Hypnotherapist.
If you're in the East Devon/West Somerset area, give me a call, together we can help you to LIVE your life!!

Karen Taylor
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Psychosis and Neurosis

Psychosis is a mental health illness that distorts the senses, making the ill person lose touch with reality. It is a continuum of anxiety and depression and affects approximately 4% of people at some point in their lives. They are often unaware that they have a  problem.  Hypnotherapy can help by effectively treating excessive stress and depression before it spills into psychosis.

Schizophrenia and Bi-polar disorder are both Psychotic disorders.

Signs of psychosis are –

• Changes in mood and thinking to abnormal ideas which makes it hard to understand how the person feels.
• Confused thinking, everyday thoughts don’t join up properly, sentences don’t make sense, there may be difficulty concentrating or remembering.
• False beliefs or delusions.
• Hallucinations, seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling or tasting things that isn’t there.
• Changed feelings, mood swings, more excited or depressed than usual.
• Changed behaviour, extremely lethargic or active. They may become angry or upset without a cause.

Neurosis is a term referring to mental balances that cause distress but don’t affect normal thoughts or activities. Neurosis takes the form of depression, anxiety, panic attacks and OCD.

The hypnotherapist’s role working with neurosis is to relax the mind and focus neuronal activity towards higher cortical regions of the brain where creative and solution based thinking occur, reducing stress responses of anger, anxiety and depression in the limbic region.

Legally and professionally, the hypnotherapist wouldn’t treat clients with psychotic disorders due to their poor grip on reality. These clients should be referred to their GP for psychiatric referral. If however, the hypnotherapist had specialist training whereby they could use metaphorical language to encourage left hemisphere activity in order to reduce anxiety levels with calming metaphors, then treatment could commence.

The human givens perspective on treating psychosis is that should a client have a strong emotional support system and solid connection to reality by daily creative tasks such as gardening or cooking, they recover quicker than those without. This theory is backed up by research of 3^rd world countries. A technique used,  provided clients aren’t in a psychotic episode is to help them dip out of the dreamlike state into the analytical brain by the type of questions asked and talking about their concerns, connecting with their metaphors and attempting to change the meanings these have for them. This helps them understand what’s happening so they can spend more time in normal waking reality.

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