Regression Therapy Protocols Flashcards
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Age regression to an event is distinguished from age regression to an age in that:
Answer: Regression to an event targets a specific incident, while regression to an age anchors to a developmental period
Regression to an event pinpoints a specific incident; regression to an age explores a broader developmental window.
When using ideomotor signaling during regression, 'yes' and 'no' finger signals allow the hypnotist to:
Answer: Communicate with the client's unconscious while minimizing conscious interference
Ideomotor signals let the unconscious respond directly, bypassing the critical faculty that verbal responses can trigger.
A client in regression becomes highly distressed and dissociates from the traumatic scene. The recommended technique to reduce overwhelm is:
Answer: Use a screen or observer technique to create emotional distance
Screen or theater techniques create therapeutic distance, allowing the client to process the material without being flooded.
The concept of 'informed child' in regression therapy involves:
Answer: Having the adult-self provide comfort, perspective, or resources to the younger-self in the memory
The adult self enters the memory to comfort and resource the child-self with knowledge and perspective unavailable at the time.
Which of the following is a key contraindication for deep regression work?
Answer: Active psychosis or a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder without psychiatric co-treatment
Active psychosis or unmanaged DID requires psychiatric co-treatment before or instead of regression hypnotherapy.
When a client accesses a traumatic memory, using the third-person observer perspective means asking the client to:
Answer: Watch the scene as if viewing it from outside, like watching themselves on a movie screen
A third-person or dissociated perspective reduces the emotional intensity, making traumatic material more manageable.
The primary goal of regression therapy in the context of a phobia is typically to:
Answer: Locate and reprocess the Initial Sensitizing Event (ISE) that seeded the phobic response
Finding and therapeutically resolving the ISE addresses the root cause rather than only managing symptoms.