Students will need to present their case studies in the following way to enable us to give effective feedback and to help you improve on them each month.

Weekend 1
Please write your case studies with the following headings:
Client’s background information. (Data gathering etc.)
Presenting problem. (I.e. Stress)
Hypnotic intervention used, from skills learnt so far - please write verbatim.
Critical Evaluation of the session. This includes:

• How did your client feel?
• How did you feel?
• How could you do it differently next time?
• What did you learn?

Weekend 2
Please write your case studies with the following headings:
Client’s background information.
Presenting problem.
Counselling skills used from Stage 1 skills.
Hypnotic intervention used, from skills learnt so far – please write verbatim.
Critical Evaluation of the session. This includes:

• How did your client feel?
• How did you feel?
• How could you do it differently next time?
• What did you learn?

Weekend 3
Please write your case studies with the following headings:
Client’s background information.
Presenting problem.
Counselling skills used, from Stage 1 and 2 skills.
Hypnotic intervention used, from skills learnt so far.
Critical Evaluation of the session. This includes:

• How did your client feel?
• How did you feel?
• How could you do it differently next time?
• What did you learn?

Weekend 4
Please write your case studies with the following headings.
Clients background information.
Presenting problem. (Stress)
Underlying problem.
Counselling skills used, from Stage 1, 2 and 3 skills.
Hypnotic intervention used, from skills learnt so far.
Critical Evaluation of the session. This includes:

• How did your client feel?
• How did you feel?
• How could you do it differently next time?
• What did you learn?

After this you should continue writing case studies following the Weekend 4 format. Once you have written the hypnotic intervention and the tutor has given you feedback that they are happy that you are using it properly, there is no need to continue writing it verbatim in every case study, but rather just make a note of what intervention you have used.

It is likely as you progress through the course that, towards the end, the Critical Evaluation will make up a major part of the case study rather than the content of the session itself.

There are some case study examples from both Foundation and Diploma courses available on the web site. Please remember that these are guidelines only, and each student is encouraged to adapt and bring their own style to these case studies, provided all relevant areas