Sunday, 7 May 2017

'About' ADVANCED DIPLOMA and The Reflective Journal

About the Advanced Diploma
The Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy is a substantial in depth course taking your practice to the next level.

It encourages academic, critical and reflective thinking on your practice, learning and ethics.

It provides a clear advancement on your initial hypnotherapy training and experience enhancing your knowledge, skills and techniques. It also actively encourages a considered and critical approach to hypnotherapy research and theories.


Accreditation
The Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy offered by Unity has been Assessed and Validated at Advanced Practitioner Level by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (UK). On qualifying, Graduates immediately benefit from the letters AdvDipH after their name, signifying attainment of advanced level status. Graduates from this course (who have already qualified at Practitioner status via a course validated by the GHSC at Practitioner Level) are eligible for professional registration with the General Hypnotherapy Register (the GHSC’s Registering Agency) at Advanced Practitioner Level following two years in practice.

Eligibility
Applicants for this advanced course must have received a substantial amount of live training as required for professional membership. They must already be fully conversant with inducing, deepening, maintaining and disengaging trance, hypnotic and posthypnotic suggestions. They are likely to be practicing hypnotherapists who want to improve and enhance their skills for the benefits of their clients or practitioners who may have had time away from the Profession who wish to re-engage with their learning.

Benefits

The Advanced Diploma in Hypnotherapy will improve your knowledge and techniques and develop your critical and analytical thinking skills. It will also show you how to maximise success, deal with awkward situations/clients, expand your questioning techniques and develop you as a Reflective Practitioner.



Accountability
The GHSC reserves the right to randomly sample homework portfolios from accredited schools to check standards of student work and tutor feedback. Schools will be given feedback and expected to implement changes at the next available opportunity.

Learning outcomes
The following learning outcomes must be met (in any order).
Important note: each question or task in the homework portfolio must be accompanied by the learning outcome/s that it substantiates. One neat method of doing this is to place the learning outcome in a table just below the question (an example is provided later).

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

Growing as a hypnotherapist
Being a reflective practitioner - reflecting back on our work, analysing personal strengths and weakness, etc. Knowing when it is appropriate to reflect and maintaining good work-life boundaries (i.e. not over-reflecting).
Getting the best from supervision.
How to set up and run a peer group.
How to work with complex presenting issues. Examples might include skin disorders, working with grief, and tinnitus.

What is a Reflective Learning Journal?
A reflective journal is designed to help you think deeply about your learning, especially on issues such as: your progress in learning, the difficulties you encountered in the process of learning, the strategies you have taken to get around those difficulties, and your evaluation of your own performance.


What can you get from writing reflective learning journal?
For the study, writing a reflective learning journal helps you:
  • bring together theory and practice,
  • yield better understanding of the course material

For your development as a successful and independent learner, it helps you:
  • See your strength and weakness as a learner
  • Find out the methods of learning which suit your own learning style
  • Notice how you can improve your learning in the future
  • Gain a clearer picture of your learning progress and so in a better position to plan your learning

“I don’t know what to write!”

5 tips on what to write in a journal entry:
  • Start off with whatever in your mind about your learning experience in the course
  • Describe the meaning of what you have learnt. Also, your reaction, feeling, opinions, views on both the learning process and the learnt material
  • List the goods and the bad, the strengths and weaknesses you consider you demonstrate in the course of your learning
  • Make advice for yourself and make a plan for your learning in the near future

“Now I know what to put in the entry, but how should I write it?”

  • Write in first person, as if you are writing a letter to a friend
  • There is no right or wrong answer for a journal entry. Therefore, feel free to express your ideas, opinion, and thoughts
  • Don’t hesitate to share your personal experience if that helps to illustrate your point
  • Don’t limit yourself to words – diagrams and pictures are ok too
  • Don’t be too intimidated by English rules. It’s okay to make minor grammatical errors if that does not interfer the transmission of ideas. So don’t put too much thought about how to write good English, instead spend more effort on what to write


REFLECTIVE JOURNAL OF PRACTICE
Reflective journal of practice - you are asked to reflect briefly on what happened as you implemented advanced techniques and skills you have learnt during your course. Please do this for at least one session with two different clients ensuring you have used a different technique/skill with each client. Learning outcomes 1.1 and 3.7 will be covered here, possibly others too.



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