Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children: Third Edition [Hardcover]

Karen Olness (Author), Daniel P. Kohen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 157230054X | ISBN-13: 978-1572300545 | Publication Date: April 19, 1996 | Edition: 3

The revised and expanded third edition of this popular text combines an up-to-date review of the relevant literature with a thorough and practical discussion of psychological and medical applications. Illustrated by substantially enriched case material, each section has undergone extensive review and revision, and the book features completely new chapters on biofeedback and teaching child hypnotherapy. The authors provide successful hypnotherapeutic strategies for treating conditions including psychological disorders, habit disorders, learning and performance difficulties, pain, pediatric medical problems, and grief, mourning, and terminal illness. This book will be of value to professionals including psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, pediatricians and family doctors.

Editorial Reviews

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"This new edition expands on the second edition's reputation as the gold standard in the field....The authors combine scholarly thoroughness and clinical compassion to produce a work that is as readable as it is useful." --Michael Nash, Ph.D., ABPP, Associate Professor, Fellow

"The new edition of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children by Karen Olness and Daniel Kohen is an important addition to the library of clinicians dealing with children and adolescents. The idea of using hypnotherapy in the management of diverse problems such as pain management, persistent cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, etc. opens new paths of treatment for the holistic physician. Giving the child and adolescent a degree of mastery over their body with its symptoms allows for a collaborative participation in treatment between the physician and the young patient. It is this union that often improves health and/or diminishes problem symptoms. The new edition of their book is informative, exciting in concept and thorough and current in scope. These two behavioral pediatricians are clearing a dynamic new pathway through the previously unexplored forest of psychology within which very likely lies new treasures of helpful therapeutic advances. I use hypnotherapy in my consultation practice of behavioral and developmental pediatrics and have found it of considerable help with many children and adolescents with varying complaints, most particularly pain and anxiety/panic symptoms. Drs. Olness and Kohen are among the leaders in this field and offer us an important textbook source for knowledge and practice in their field of discovery." --Murray M. Kappelman, MD, Professor, Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Director, Division of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine

"This book is an essential component in the library of either the pediatrician or the child psychiatrist. In this new edition, Drs. Olness and Kohen offer an elegant and comprehensive guide to the uses of hypnotherapy with children." --W. Thomas Boyce, MD, Division of Behavioral & Developmental Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco

"Since its first edition in 1981, Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children has been the first, the most comprehensive and the most widely used text for practitioners of hypnotherapy with children. Now in its third edition, Drs. Olness and Kohen have written a book that is both an excellent text for reference on using hypnotherapy with pediatric problems and an inspiring guide on how to be inventive, using this age-old art to bring about needed change. Written with warmth, humor, and a presiding appreciation of the imaginative world and playful work of children, this book is rich in clinical vignettes and the language to use to promote children's recovery and well-being. For clinicians working with children its emphasis on mind-body techniques will be very helpful in developing therapeutic methods for the 21st Century." Leora Kuttner, PhD, Assoc Clin Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia

About the Author

Karen Olness, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and International Health at Case Western Reserve University. A member of the General Academic Pediatrics Division, she is Director of International Child Health and Co-Director of the Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship training at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. She is Principal Investigator for Pediatric HIV Studies in Uganda and Director of a Faculty Development project in Laos. Past President of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, and the Northwestern Pediatric Society, Dr. Olness has also served as a medical volunteer in refugee camps in Thailand and in Goma.

Daniel P. Kohen, M.D., is Director of the Behavioral Pediatrics Program in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota. An Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Family Practice and Community Health, he directs the Fellowship Program in Behavioral/Developmental Pediatrics, and also has an active consulting clinical practice. The current President of the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Medical Hypnosis. Widely published, Dr. Kohen is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and he has conducted pediatric hypnosis workshops in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 457 pages
• Publisher: Guilford Press; 3 edition (April 19, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157230054X
• ISBN-13: 978-1572300545
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,307,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Textbook on Child Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, January 1, 2000

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Dale B. Mortimer, M.D., P.C. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children: Third Edition (Hardcover)

This book's first edition was published in 1981, describing itself as a "comprehensive text...[providing] an up-to-date survey of the available information on child hypnotherapy...a detailed, thorough, and stimulating source of ideas and creative approaches to understanding chidlren and helping them develop their potential to the fullest." The revised and expanded third edition includes new material, but hasn't changed substantially from the first edition - it is hard to improve on perfection. In its latest incarnation, this third edition remains the "gold standard in the field." For more specifics, do see my published review on this book in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36:12, December, 1997, pages 1782-3

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, February 14, 2011

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kevin M windisch - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children: Third Edition (Hardcover)

Truely the most comprehensive review of the medical/psychological literature on the topic of hypnosis in children. Dr.'s Kohen and Olhness have done it again.

1 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotherapy, August 12, 2005

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Ms. Giselle Tonee (Western Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children: Third Edition (Hardcover)

Disappointed the cover is a bland silver and not the cover as shown on Amazon. Content is useful.