ASCH Level 1 Clinical Workshop, GI PEDS 2026, Pre-Test

Pre-Test

This quiz serves as a pre-course assessment designed to evaluate your existing competencies and knowledge before the start of the course. It is not graded, but it will show you the correct answers. This quiz is intended to help us understand your strengths and areas that may need further focus during the upcoming learning experience.

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* 1. Please enter your name

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* 3. Aspects of a clinically hypnotic trance may include all of the following EXCEPT...

Inner absorption and reflection

Patient giving up control to the clinician

Openness to change and therapeutic suggestions

Focused attention and concentration

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* 4. One explanation for why control of one’s perceptions and movements feels involuntary and effortless while in a hypnotic state is because...

Hypnosis causes our cognitive monitoring centers to go to sleep.‎

We give control of our mind over to someone else when under hypnosis.‎

Hypnosis seems to weaken connectivity between executive control and ‎cognitive monitoring systems in the brain.‎

Hypnosis causes our executive control centers (pre-frontal cortex) to go to sleep.

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* 5. Speaking with a slow, soft cadence as we do in hypnosis signals safety to the ventral vagus nerve which activates the...

The pre-frontal cortex

Sympathetic nervous system

Parasympathetic nervous system

The amygdala

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* 6. Which of the following is NOT an example of permissive, invitational language?

Only relax as much as you feel comfortable right now

Feel free to close your eyes if you would like

You may begin to relax now, or you may begin to relax in a few minutes

You will relax deeply right now

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* 7. Any of the following suggestions could help a client tune out distractions like background noise, EXCEPT...

Suggest the patient can get more absorbed in the details of the sound, noticing ‎where it ends and begins, its rhythm, and how it changes moment to moment

Don’t say anything about the background noise because that would be more ‎distracting to the patient

Suggesting that a part of their mind could notice the noise, while another part of ‎their mind can relax and let the noise fade into the background

Suggesting they could get more curious about the noise and simply let it be part ‎of their experience

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* 8. A negative hallucination is...

Imagining that you can talk to a deceased loved one

A hallucination of a negative experience

Seeing, hearing, or experiencing something that is NOT present

Not seeing, hearing, or experiencing something that is actually present

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* 9. Which of the following is the best example of a direct suggestion?

I don’t really know if you will close your eyes or cast your gaze down

Many people like to begin hypnosis by closing their eyes

You can close your eyes now

You may find yourself going to a deeper place inside now or at a later moment

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* 10. Which of the following is the best example of an indirect suggestion?

You can close your eyes now.‎

When I count to three, you will open your eyes

Many people like to begin hypnosis by closing their eyes

Imagine that you can travel into the future

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* 11. Which of the following statements about self-hypnosis is FALSE?

Self-hypnosis is the same thing as meditation

Self-hypnosis has a specific goal in mind

Self-hypnosis is the act of administering hypnosis procedures on one’s own

Self-hypnosis is something we should teach our patients to do

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* 12. Which of the following statements is FALSE regarding the nature of memory?

Memory retrieved under hypnosis is usually 90% accurate‎

Memory is not stored in one place in the brain, but reconstructed from several areas

Memories can be distorted, biased, and altered by changes in perspective

Researchers like Elizabeth Loftus have demonstrated “false memories” can be ‎created through the use of leading questions or suggestions

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* 13. Which of the following issues led to a healthcare professional being sued by a client?

Using hypnosis outside the scope of practice covered by one’s healthcare discipline

Not fully relaerting the client from hypnosis before they left the session

Touching a client during trance without securing their permission first

All of these events have resulted in a client taking legal action against a clinician

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* 14. The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) does not support the practice of hypnosis by...

Licensed Clinical Social Workers

Registered Nurses

Licensed Dentists

Laypersons who lack clinical training in a healthcare discipline