BCH Regression Therapy Protocols 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Age regression to an event is distinguished from age regression to an age in that:
- Regression to an event targets a specific incident, while regression to an age anchors to a developmental period (Correct answer)
- Regression to an age is always deeper hypnotically
- Regression to an event is only used for positive memories
- Regression to an age requires a deeper induction
Correct 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.
Question 2: When using ideomotor signaling during regression, 'yes' and 'no' finger signals allow the hypnotist to:
- Deepen trance without verbal interaction
- Communicate with the client's unconscious while minimizing conscious interference (Correct answer)
- Measure the depth of the trance state numerically
- Verify the client's physical relaxation level
Correct 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.
Question 3: A client in regression becomes highly distressed and dissociates from the traumatic scene. The recommended technique to reduce overwhelm is:
- Suggest the client experience the scene fully to process it
- Use a screen or observer technique to create emotional distance (Correct answer)
- Immediately bring the client out of trance
- Ask the client to describe the scene in present tense
Correct 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.
Question 4: The concept of 'informed child' in regression therapy involves:
- Having the adult-self provide comfort, perspective, or resources to the younger-self in the memory (Correct answer)
- Teaching the client about child development theory before the session
- Regressing only to memories the client consciously recalls
- Using a child-appropriate script for younger clients
Correct 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.
Question 5: Which of the following is a key contraindication for deep regression work?
- High hypnotic suggestibility
- Active psychosis or a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder without psychiatric co-treatment (Correct answer)
- Motivation to resolve long-standing issues
- Previous experience with hypnotherapy
Correct 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.
Question 6: When a client accesses a traumatic memory, using the third-person observer perspective means asking the client to:
- Describe what another person in the memory did wrong
- Watch the scene as if viewing it from outside, like watching themselves on a movie screen (Correct answer)
- Speak about the memory only after the session ends
- Re-experience every sensory detail as fully as possible
Correct 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.
Question 7: The primary goal of regression therapy in the context of a phobia is typically to:
- Replace the phobic stimulus with a pleasant image
- Locate and reprocess the Initial Sensitizing Event (ISE) that seeded the phobic response (Correct answer)
- Count the client out of trance whenever the phobia is mentioned
- Teach relaxation skills rather than uncover root causes
Correct 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.
BCH Regression Therapy Protocols 3
Age regression to an event is distinguished from age regression to an age in that: