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Membership Educational Performance Criteria

The following is deemed as the "minimum" educational performance standards for Professional Certification and Membership in the Association Of Registered Clinical Hypnotherapists (ARCH)

Registered Hypnotherapists (225 hours)

Ability to identify the client's suggestibility
Ability to conduct both physical and instrumental tests of suggestibility
Knowledge of proper client interviewing and intake skills
Knowledge of Rapport Building Skills
Knowledge of and ability to overcome misconceptions and myths about hypnosis
Knowledge and understanding of the Concepts of the Mind
Ability to facilitate hypnosis and terminate hypnosis
Ability to teach Self-Hypnosis
Understanding of the usages and limitations of hypnosis
Ability to determine the best induction to facilitate hypnosis
Ability to utilize several different genre of deepening techniques
Knowledge and ability to utilize ideomotor response
Protocol and Ability to conduct a Smoking Cessation Programme
Protocol and Ability to conduct a Weight Management Programme
Protocol and Ability to conduct a Stress Management Programme
Protocol and Ability to effectively use imagery and visualization
Protocol and Ability to conduct Regression
Knowledge of protocols to reduce symptoms of generalize mental problems, such as: depression, anxiety, stress, etc.
Knowledge of protocols to assist the client in over-coming unwanted behaviours, such as: generalize insomnia, nail biting, etc.
Knowledge and ability to work with Pain Management Protocols
Knowledge and ability to work with simple phobias
Knowledge of Protocols such as: Circle Therapy
Knowledge of different approaches of Hypnosis including Ericksonian and Elman Techniques
Knowledge of the Legal Requirements in your Province
Knowledge of the protocol to deal with "Suicidal Ideation"
Knowledge of the protocol for proper client record keeping
Understanding and agreement with the ARCH Code of Ethics
Successfully complete the ARCH Certification Exam