8. Stage 3

Stage Three Course Details

Entry to Stage Three of the NCHP training programme is confined to those students who hold the Certificate in Hypno-Psychotherapy. Stage Three is the Diploma stage, at the completion of which students are required to submit a dissertation leading to the award of the Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy, with the designating letters DHP(NC), and enables practitioners to apply for Full membership of the National College Student and Alumni Guild - designating letters MNCSAG.  The aim of this Stage Three course is to further the students' knowledge and ethical practice of hypno-psychotherapy. 

In accordance with UKCP requirements and consistent with NCHP practice over many years, such topics as Ethics, Human Development and Sexuality are integral to the course.

Students are required to attend the four weekends of the course (56 hours' attendance), usually at monthly intervals, and undertake a comprehensive programme of home study. The fourth weekend is devoted to the practical exam.

Dissertation

With regard to the dissertation submission, within the context of hypno-psychotherapy, there are various ways of conducting research. Many dissertations submitted by NCHP students involve secondary research, i.e., a review, or meta-analysis, of the literature and pre-existing research reports. As secondary research does not involve working directly with human participants it is not necessary for such research to be considered in the planning stages by an ethics committee. However, students undertaking secondary research might wish to consider the social and moral implications of their work and whether the outcome of the research is likely to bring positive benefits.

Primary research, where first hand data or information are being collected directly from human participants, must be considered in the planning stages by an ethics committee. Such research may be either experimentally or clinically based. For hypno-psychotherapists research will usually be clinically based with case studies forming the data/information base.

Ethics Committee

The NCHP Committee on Ethical Research considers primary research proposals put forward by NCHP students. The aim of the committee is to ensure that students and members are aware of the ethical implications of any primary research they undertake and that any such research conforms with generally accepted ethical and moral principles.

Stage Three students will be given copies of the ethical guidelines upon which their research proposals will be assessed. They reflect current thinking on the ethics of social science/psychological research and incorporate extracts from the British Psychological Society's ethical guidelines.

Once the research proposal has been approved by the Ethics Committee the research for the dissertation can go ahead, with the work being submitted in due course for academic assessment in the usual way by the NCHP's independent external markers.

Also, the student will be required (i) to warrant that the subject matter of the dissertation is his/ her original work and that he/she holds the copyright therein and (ii) to grant the NCHP an irrevocable free licence under the copyright to publish the document if it so wishes, provided that the NCHP undertakes to identify the author and his/her copyright.

Stage Three Course Outline

(45 Open University-specific points at Post Graduate Level)

Stage Three of the NCHP training builds upon the previous two stages and aims to further students' knowledge and ethical practice of hypno-psychotherapy.

Please note: Tape recorders are not allowed on the course.


Weekend One: Performance

Sport

Education

Work
    
    Interviews

    Public Speaking

    Perfectionism
 

Weekend Two: Physical Issues

Pain

IBS

Dermatological problems

Fibromyalgia

Weekend Three: Emotional Issues

Eating disorders

Depression

Advanced anxiety issues

[In accordance with UKCP requirements and consistent with NCHP practice over many years, such topics as Ethics, Human Development and Sexuality are covered throughout the training.]

Weekend Four

Consolidation: This weekend is conducted with an "open frame", students will determine in conjunction with their lecturer the focus of this weekend.