Training & Accreditation Institute

Accreditation Programme for

ICHP

DEGREE UPGRADE

PROGRAMME

for EAHP ACCREDITATION

ICHP Advanced Diploma Holders, or equivalent

Future proofing your professional qualifications in the context of Government Registration

The Marino Institute of Education

Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9 &

Therapy House, Tuckey Street, Cork City

•  Where
The Marino Institute of Education, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9 &  
Therapy House, 6 Tuckey Street, Cork City.  

•  Times
Registration:    5.30 - 6.00 pm
Evening Session:   6.00pm - 11.00pm
Morning Session:  9.00 - 1.00 pm
Afternoon Session:  2.00 - 5.00 pm

•  Course Fees
Workshop :    €200
Deposit:    €100
Accommodation:   Marino Institute (0) 1 8057760



Please fill out the Booking Form provided:  (see attached)

Attach with:

Cheques / Bankers Drafts made payable to:  
Joe E. Keaney, ICHP

And send to:  Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
Therapy House, 6 Tuckey Street, Cork City, Ireland
Telephone No: (021) 4273575

•  Certification

You will receive an ICHP Degree in Hypno-psychotherapy after completion of the following:
(1) Upgrade Programme  
(2) 500 Hours ICHP Logbook Accreditation  
(3) Accredited Members, ongoing Supervision required

•  Progression

On completion of steps 1, 2 and 3 above, you will be eligible for inclusion in ICHP  
Post-graduate programme leading to EAHP Certification.
Programme Booking and Awards Information
Cork Classes are run every Wednesday night from 24th March 2010 from 6:45pm
For further information please contact either Noel Finn, Accreditation
Administrator or Joe Keaney, Course Director in Tuckey St, on 021 4273575 or by
email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

ICHP Accreditation Certification Programme  
Personal Therapy Experience
Case History Writing
Journaling
Contributing 150 hours toward your
500 hours of required  
Supervised Logbook Hours for  
Accreditation  
Supervision  
Clinical Practice

ICHP Accreditation BCHAPS Techniques Workshops are run one weekend each month for 10 months.  Participants are required to attend ten of these weekends which run on a Friday evening/Saturday basis in Dublin, and once a week in Cork. Each weekend will involve specific techniques which will be repeated at intervals over the 24 months, so that, in the event of a participant missing one weekend, they will be eligible to complete it in the next cycle of workshops.  

PROGRAMME BACKGROUND
In 2009 the ICHP Training & Accreditation Institute gained some major ground on the road to European-wide Accreditation by attaining Category 4 Membership of the European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy (EAHP). This category of membership is the gold standard of European education in Hypno-psychotherapy and allows for accreditation on a European recognised level. ICHP Training and Accreditation Institute are currently planning to roll out a new Degree Upgrade Programme for current graduates. These programmes will be split into undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with the former leading students to an ICHP Degree in Hypno-psychotherapy and the latter to a Masters award. The undergraduate level will require students to complete three years training to achieve the Bachelor Degree Level.  

ICHP are now offering current ICHP therapists and graduates the opportunity to complete a one-year training programme to upgrade their qualifications to this Bachelor Degree Level, and to have the opportunity to continue into Post-graduate training thereafter. The course will entail further supervision, clinical practice and personal therapy, which will bring students up to the European baseline level requirements as outlined by the European Association of Hypno-psychotherapy (EAHP). This opens the door for students to continue training in a post-graduate programme for eventual European Certification in Psychotherapy.The new training programme for present graduates is created to fulfil the requirements of Clinical Practice and Hypno-psychotherapeutic experience which are major facets of the EAHP training standards. Hence, the programme will involve each student both performing and receiving  a variety of Hypno-psychotherapeutic techniques in a supervised setting.

RATIONALE
The rationale behind this methodology is that in receiving the techniques the participant is receiving personal therapy , while, in performing the techniques the participant is gaining clinical practice experience. Research shows that, whereas good knowledge of key components of a technique lays an important foundation for effective practice, expert practitioners are those who are able to adapt the technique to deviate and go beyond the technical recommendations of the technique when the clinical situation requires this.

CERTIFICATION
The graduate will receive the ICHP Degree in Hypnotherapy when the following is completed:
•  Diploma & Advanced Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
•  500 Accredited Supervised Hours*
•  Training Analysis
•  ICHP’s new one-year techniques practice & experience programme

* (Please note, the practical hours completed during the ICHP Bachelor Degree

Accreditation Upgrade training programme will be included as part of your 500 Hours for Accreditation)
As the new phase of ICHP Training & Accreditation comes into effect in 2011/12 it will begin a new era for ICHP on a national and European-wide level. The Degree Upgrade  Programme will ensure each graduate is awarded and accredited with the same credit weighting as new students who will graduate in years to come. This will avoid any discrepancies in qualifications once the new structures are firmly in place.ICHP’s new one-year programme for graduates entitled Supervised Techniques Experience in Clinical Practice integrating Personal Hypno-psychotherapeutic Experience, Case history writing and Journaling. The objective of these classes is that the participant will be practicing each technique four times and receiving the technique four times. As various techniques are covered each weekend, the course format allows the techniques to be run cyclically. Therefore, if a participant is unable to attend one weekend they can cover the techniques they have missed in the second cycle of classes.

Each Friday-night/Saturday class will accumulate 12 hours.

The course will run over ten months from January-December excluding July and
August: 12 hours x 10 months = 120 hours
One night a month with a Supervisor in your region for three hours:

3 hours x 10 months = 30 hours
Therefore, a total of 150 hours in the classroom over the year.
In addition, 150 hours of techniques practice and personal Hypno-
psychotherapeutic experience outside the classroom, along with case history
writing and journaling.

Each class will see students learning various techniques and then both performing the technique on fellow students and receiving the technique from fellow students, all the while being Supervised and assisted by senior ICHP Supervisors. This will contribute to your ability as a therapist to perform and practice each technique under Supervised Techniques Experience and to undergo each technique for yourself as a form of Hypno-psychotherapeutic Experience. The directed independent study section of the course entails documenting experiences through case history writing and journaling issues arising as a result of receiving the techniques.

On completion of the Supervised Techniques Experience in Clinical Practice integrating Personal Hypno-psychotherapeutic Experience, Case history writing and Journaling in 2010, students will be eligible to continue their studies into Post-graduate Level which runs part-time for four years. As they will have achieved the baseline level of training required by European Association of Hypno-psychotherapy and the European Association of Psychotherapy.

Download application form HERE

Full ICHP Accreditation Handbook can be downloaded HERE