CMH Client Evaluation & Induction 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) induction is most effective for clients who are:
- Highly kinesthetic or body-focused (Correct answer)
- Primarily visual processors
- Already in a deep somnambulistic state
- Resistant to metaphor and storytelling
Correct answer: Highly kinesthetic or body-focused
PMR works by systematically tensing and releasing muscle groups, making it ideal for kinesthetic clients who respond to body sensations.
Question 2: In an eye-fixation induction, the client is asked to focus on a point above eye level primarily to:
- Prevent them from reading the hypnotist's notes
- Fatigue the eye muscles and facilitate eye closure (Correct answer)
- Test color perception under stress
- Activate the sympathetic nervous system
Correct answer: Fatigue the eye muscles and facilitate eye closure
Upward gaze strains the levator palpebrae muscles, making eyelid fatigue and natural closure more likely.
Question 3: Which induction technique relies heavily on building anticipation through a compelling narrative rather than direct relaxation commands?
- Dave Elman induction
- Ericksonian confusion technique
- Storytelling or metaphor induction (Correct answer)
- Arm catalepsy induction
Correct answer: Storytelling or metaphor induction
Storytelling inductions bypass critical factor by engaging the imagination and unconscious mind through narrative.
Question 4: The 'fractionation' technique deepens trance by:
- Dividing the session into 10-minute billing increments
- Repeatedly bringing the client in and out of trance, deepening each time (Correct answer)
- Using fraction-based mathematics as a confusion technique
- Splitting suggestions into positive and negative frames
Correct answer: Repeatedly bringing the client in and out of trance, deepening each time
Each emergence-and-reinduction cycle trains the nervous system to drop more rapidly and deeply into hypnosis.
Question 5: A rapid induction is MOST appropriate when the client:
- Is highly anxious and needs extra time to feel safe
- Has given informed consent and demonstrates high hypnotic responsiveness (Correct answer)
- Is being seen for the very first time with no rapport built
- Has a fear of losing control
Correct answer: Has given informed consent and demonstrates high hypnotic responsiveness
Rapid inductions rely on the client's established responsiveness and trust; high suggestibility makes the quick technique effective.
Question 6: The Dave Elman induction is characterized by:
- A slow 45-minute progressive relaxation script
- Rapid eye closure, physical relaxation, mental relaxation, and somnambulism tests (Correct answer)
- Exclusively Ericksonian language patterns
- Binaural audio tones as the primary catalyst
Correct answer: Rapid eye closure, physical relaxation, mental relaxation, and somnambulism tests
Elman's method efficiently achieves deep trance by stacking eye-closure, body relaxation, and a number-amnesia test in quick succession.
Question 7: When a client's eyes flutter during an induction, this most commonly indicates:
- Medical emergency requiring session termination
- REM-like activity consistent with entering a hypnotic state (Correct answer)
- The client is pretending to be hypnotized
- Dissociation disorder requiring psychiatric referral
Correct answer: REM-like activity consistent with entering a hypnotic state
Eyelid fluttering is a recognized physiological sign of transitioning into hypnosis, similar to the hypnagogic state before sleep.
CMH Client Evaluation & Induction 3
The Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) induction is most effective for clients who are: