title: Utilizing Ericksonian hypnosis in psychiatric-mental health nursing practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Ericksonian hypnosis conceptual framework.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To acquaint psychiatric-mental health nurses with hypnotic principles and how these can be integrated into their practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published literature and author's clinical experience.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ericksonian hypnosis offers an array of potential interventions for psychiatric-mental health nurses to integrate into their practices in a framework familiar to nurses: holism, honoring and respecting individuality, and capitalizing on an individual's strengths.
authors.affiliation: New York University, Division of Nursing, New York, USA. rorryz@aol.com
authors.forename: Rothlyn P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Zahourek
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing