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Hypnosis in Pain therapy and in Palliative Care
No full textClinical hypnosis has been defined as a mind-body therapy that involves a deeply relaxed state, individualized mental imagery, and therapeutic suggestion. Clinical hypnosis has a very long history, with reports of medical application dating back to the 18th century. Some have suggested that there is even evidence for the use of clinical hypnosis since ancient times, with inscriptions of hypnotic-like phenomena on a stone stele from Egypt during the reign of Ramses XII, some 3,000 years ago. The word hypnosis, derived from the Greek word for sleep, was coined by James Braid in 1841. Clinical hypnosis is a mind-body therapy, one of the fastest-growing and most commonly employed categories of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), as defined by the NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) of the National Institutes of Health. A national health interview survey of medical usage in 2007 found that 4 out of 10 US respondents reported having used complementary and alternative medical treatments in the previous year
Clinical Hypnosis In Palliative Care: Techniques For Effectively Relieving Pain And Symptoms.
No full textSP2: Clinical Hypnosis in Palliative Care: Techniques for Effectively Relieving Pain and Symptoms (3.5 CE/CME)
Dan Handel, MD – co-chair; Paola Brugnoli, MD- co-chair; Michael Flynn, PhD and Sylvain Neron, PhD
This workshop is most appropriate for participants who are behavioral/mental health or medical practitioners with 2-8 years of hypnosis expereince who seek mainly theory with some experiential exercises
This workshop will focus on skill building for those who work with chronic and/or progressive health conditions and patients whose life feels threatened by medical conditions. The workshop will focus on practical clinical approaches and techniques with sound underpinnings based on recent advances in our understanding of pain processing. Following an introduction to the evaluation of chronic pain, a practical methodology for building clinical strategies will be introduced. Case based approaches will be discussed and through audience participation the basis for each approach will be discussed. Practical exercises will encourage participants to build rapid assessment skills while facilitating therapeutic planning strategies that utilize hypnotic language. In addition to specific skills, participants will also explore their own reactions to life-limiting illness and to developing deep and life-altering relationships with individuals whose lives are imminently threatened by illness.
At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
• Effectively assess and differentiate the three major types of pain encountered in advanced illness;
• Develop cogent hypnotic strategies for symptom control that reflect patient characteristics such as type of pain, setting characteristics such as degree of impairment of function and anticipated
life span, that relies on and builds upon the therapeutic relationship between therapist and
patient; and
• Rapidly develop scripts that reflect, respect, and amplify unique aspects of the individual patient
We Can Live and Die Healed: Hypnosis for Palliation of Symptoms in Advanced Illness
No full textM3: We Can Live and Die Healed: Hypnosis for Palliation of Symptoms in Advanced Illness
(5.25 CE/CME) (M)
Sylvain Néron, PhD; Daniel Handel, MD; Maria Paola Brugnoli, MD; and Michael Flynn, PhD
This workshop is most appropriate for participants who work in behavioral/mental health and medicine who may or may not
work with medical/surgical patients and are at least 2 years post basic course who seek a balance of theory and experiential
exercises. Appropriate for Physicians and Nurses also. This workshop requires advanced level of integration of hypnosis into
practice.
Palliative care has historically embraced integrated approaches in the care of patients with advanced
illness expanding beyond the current biological perspective to include the concept of energy and
its relationship to health. When both care-givers and care-receivers embrace the process utilizing
hypnosis creatively to fi nd what heals the mind, the body, and the soul, integration becomes
harmony and freedom allowing the suff erer to die healed.
The goal of this clinically-oriented workshop is to advance the skills and confi dence of
those practitioners who are interested in learning rapid hypnotic techniques for managing physical
symptoms and hypnotic techniques for assisting patients with the important work of spiritual,
existential, and interpersonal issues experienced by those of us with incurable illness.
This workshop will describe the current state of integrating hypnotic suggestion in
the management of distressing symptoms such as pain, nausea, insomnia, and anxiety that are
commonly encountered by this population. This case-based workshop will focus extensively on
practical techniques that can be eff ectively used in brief work, particularly in medical settings, in
diff erent clinical settings, and at diff erent endpoints of the illness trajectory.
Upon completing this workshop, the participant should be able to:
1. Cite three rapid induction or deepening hypnotic techniques that enhance
ideomotor or ideosensory experience in order to rapidly enhance the modulation of
unpleasant physical symptoms;
2. Identify therapeutic metaphors and suggestions involved in improving self-regulation
in the context of bedside intervention and in busy clinics; and
3. Understand and cite two techniques that can be used to deal with existential suff ering
that is commonly encountered by people with incurable or terminal illness
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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