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What is Certification in
Clinical Hypnosis?
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Certification offers
non-statutory voluntary credentialing in Clinical
Hypnosis and provides recognition of the advanced
clinician who has met educational qualifications and
training requirements in clinical hypnosis.
What does
Certification Indicate?
- Certification indicates several
things that fellow professionals, consumers, third-party
payers, managed care programs, hospitals and clinics are
all interested in knowing about individuals who
incorporate hypnosis in their practices. Certification
indicates that the practitioner: 1) Has undergone
advanced training in his/her profession to obtain a
legitimate advanced degree from an accredited institution
of higher education; 2) Is licensed or certified to
practice in his/her state/province; 3) Has had his/her
education and training in clinical hypnosis reviewed by
qualified peers and approved consultants and such
training has met the minimum requirements established by
the Standards of Training Committee. 4) Has been
determined to have received at least the minimum
educational training that ASCH (the American
Society of Clinical Hypnosis),
the largest such interdisciplinary professional
organization in North America, considers as necessary for
utilizing hypnosis. Certification does not automatically
imply competence or guarantee the quality of a
practitioner's work.
What are the Levels
of Certification?
- There are two (2) levels of
Certification. Entry level is simply called
"Certification." An advanced level, called "Approved
Consultant," recognizes individuals who have obtained
advanced training in clinical hypnosis and who have
extensive experience in utilizing hypnosis within their
professional practices. Approved Consultants are
qualified to provide individualized training and
consultation for those seeking Certification.
Is ASCH Certification
Different From Other Certifications?
- ASCH Certification in Clinical
Hypnosis is distinct from other "certification" programs
in that it ensures that the certified individual is a
bona fide health care professional who is licensed in his
or her state or province to provide medical, dental,
psychological, or social work services. ASCH believes
that persons trained only in hypnosis lack the diagnostic
and therapeutic skills as well as the licensure required
to safely and responsibly treat medical, psychological,
or dental problems with hypnosis. ASCH Certification
distinguishes the professional practitioner from the lay
hypnotist.
- Certified professionals are
encouraged to work toward attaining the highest level of
advanced specialty certification in hypnosis through
obtaining Diplomate status from either the American Board
of Medical Hypnosis, the American Board of Psychological
Hypnosis, the American Board of Hypnosis in Dentistry, or
the American Hypnosis Board for Clinical Social
Work.
Requirements for
Certification in Clinical Hypnosis:
- M.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.O.,
D.P.M., Ph.D., Psy.D., or equivalent doctoral degree
with psychology as the major study, or a master's
degree in nursing, social work, psychology, marriage
and family therapy from a college or university
accredited by its appropriate regional accrediting
body,
- Membership in a professional
society consistent with degree,
- At the highest or independent
practice level, Licensure or Certification, by the
state of province in which you practice,
- Minimum of 40 hours of ASCH
approved workshop training: Minimum of 20 hours of
Beginning workshop training. Minimum of 20 hours of
Intermediate workshop training.
- Minimum of 20 hours of
Individualized training/consultation with an ASCH
Approved Consultant,
- Minimum of 2 years of
independent practice utilizing clinical
hypnosis.
Requirements for
Approved Consultant in Clinical
Hypnosis:
- All of the above requirements,
plus
- Minimum of 60 additional hours
of ASCH approved workshop training,
- Minimum of 5 years of
independent practice utilizing clinical
hypnosis,
- Minimum of 5 years of
membership in ASCH, SCEH, or equivalent.
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