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The uses of hypnotherapy with learning disabled children
Author(s) -
Johnson Lynn S.,
Johnson D. Lamont,
Olson Myrna R.,
Newman Joel P.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198104)37:2<291::aid-jclp2270370211>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - hypnosis , hypnotic susceptibility , psychology , hypnotic , clinical psychology , learning disability , developmental psychology , self esteem , normative , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , philosophy , epistemology , pathology
Explored the impact of group hypnotic and self‐hypnotic training on the academic performance and self‐esteem of learning disabled (LD) children. Three hypnotic training sessions and instructions for 6 weeks of daily self hypnotic practice that contained suggestions for imagery related to improvement in these areas were given to 15 children (12 males and 3 females, ages from 7 to 13), their reading teacher, and both their parents, and their responses were compared to a similar but untreated control group of 18. No overall differences were observed between groups. A multiple regression analysis revealed important predictors of self‐esteem improvement for the experimental group. The child's hypnotic susceptibility score and self‐hypnotic practice by children and parents were the most relevant. These LD children were at least as hypnotically susceptible as a normative sample. Hypnotherapy is seen as feasible in group administration by persons only moderately trained in hypnosis and of potential benefit to self‐esteem improvement in LD children, depending on individual difference factors.