Product reviews for Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children

Scripts & Strategies in Hypnotherapy with Children is a valuable resource for clinicians working hypnotically with children. This book will assist anyone who has already achieved an advanced level of training in medicine, nursing, dentistry or mental health with prior training in hypnosis to achieve greater confidence as they incorporate hypnotic skills and metaphors into their practice with children. Ms. Hudson's stories are delightfully imaginative; her language is permissive and she includes ego-strengthening in every script to foster self-esteem and self-efficacy.

The book offers the reader scripts and strategies for a variety of common pediatric problems including anxiety, sleeping problems, habit disorders, enuresis and encopresis. Robots, fairies, treasure hunts and space ships contained in the metaphors will all entertain the child while the carefully crafted therapeutic message is embedded in the story thus cleverly bypassing any resistance to change.



The strategies and scripts offered by Ms. Hudson can be used to enhance a clinician's existing area of expertise. The scripts are developmentally appropriate for the suggested ages and may be used verbatim or adjusted and incorporated into the clinician's own personal style. When working with children, the skilled practitioner must be flexible and open to the child's own creativity and spontaneity. Nearly anyone can learn how to induce a trance and certainly with children it is very easy, but what the skilled and talented clinician does with that trance state is the magic of how to access the child's inherent strengths and resources. The true magic of therapeutic change lies with the child. They possess the creative genius. The success of providing the child the tools to discover the magic and resources within depends in large part on the therapeutic relationship, rapport and alliance between the clinician and the child. Ms Hudson's book gives the clinician warm, caring and developmentally appropriate strategies that help foster rapport and successful hypnotherapeutic interventions with children. Ms. Hudson has provided the hypnosis world with a wonderful resource for working with children.