Hypnotherapy Research Paper

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Hypnotherapy and Opium Addiction Treatment
Sylvie Bridgman
PNUR 4585
November 12th, 2015
Mebs Karim
Hypnotherapy and Opium Addiction Treatment
The focus of this paper is to understand and potentially implement findings from a study which centered on the use of hypnotherapy in treating opium addiction into my own nursing practice. I will begin by providing a summary of the article and it 's findings and then move onto how I could integrate these findings into my own practice, and whether I agree or disagree with the findings.
The goal of this research study was to understand the effect of hypnotherapy, coupled with psychotherapy, on the rate of relapse in men with opioid addiction after detoxification (Golabadi, Taban, Yaghoubi, & Gholamrzai,

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