FULL DAY WORKSHOP Registration Required Registration 8:30 am   Early Registration Fees GPSCH Member $245.00 USD Non-Member $270.00 USD Student $85.00 USD

Miriam Franco, PsyD, MSW, MSCS

Elgan L. Baker, PhD, ABPH, ABPS Late Registration after 4/7/2018 Member $440.00 USD Non-Member $510.00 USD Student $170.00 USD

Why Don’t More Therapists Use Muscle Testing? ( How to Integrate Muscle Testing into Your Clinical Practice ) Brad May, PhD

Susan Sacks RN, MSN, PMHCNS-BC In this workshop, Ms. Sacks will address a variety of factors maintaining pain symptoms, hopelessness, and social isolation. The role of irrational health beliefs, pain avoidance behaviors, stress, psychological trauma, and the distrust of and communication from providers will be discussed. In addition, she will describe her seven session approach which includes direct and indirect techniques, including symptomatic modification, use of metaphor and hypnoprojection.  

Bruce Eimer Ph.D., ABPP Patients on an unending search for satisfactory relief from chronic pain often become depressed, angry and alienated. This makes them a challenge to treat and decreases the likelihood of their receiving effective help. While hypnosis is an empirically validated treatment tool for pain, its efficacy is dependent on multiple factors. This workshop will examine what these factors are and how they interact. Then the session will provide concrete guidelines for utilizing these factors when using hypnosis…