Professor of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics
200 Oak Street SE; Suite 160
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Ofc: (612) 626-3014
Fax: (612) 624-0997
dpkohen@umn.edu
Dr. Dan Kohen is the Director of the Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics Program and Clinical Director of the KDWB University Pediatrics Family Center. He is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and has a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Family Practice & Community Health. Dr. Kohen is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and by the American Board of Medical Hypnosis.
Dr. Kohen has been on the Faculty of the Department of Pediatrics for 26 years, helped to found and develop the Behavioral Pediatrics Program, then at Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, and has been at the University for 11 years. He sees patients daily in the Behavioral Pediatrics Program's general DBP clinic and self-regulation clinic. He is the Director of, and a major teacher in, the Resident Rotation training program in Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics (one month in PL-1 year), and also directs and teaches the 3-year, ACGME accredited Fellowship Training Program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.
Dr. Kohen's research interests include exploration of cyberphysiologic (self-regulatory) abilities in children and adolescents with headaches, Tourette Syndrome, children with sleep disorders, and in the ability of children to learn and utilize self-hypnosis to alter and regulate physiologic functions. He is currently completing a study of 178 consecutive children and adolescents with headaches treated with self-hypnosis training. Dr. Kohen teaches clinical hypnosis skills workshops throughout the United States and around the world and his efforts and publications also focus on best practices in clinical hypnosis education and training. He has over 50 publications in a variety of pediatric, hypnosis, and other scientific journals.
Recent Publications
Kohen DP, Murray K. Depression in Children and Youth: Applications of Hypnosis to Help Young People Help Themselves. In Yapko, MD (ed) Applying Hyypnosis in Treating Depression: Innovations in Clinical Practice. Routledge Press, New York (pp 189-216), 2006.
Sugarman LI, Kohen DP. Integrating Hypnosis into Acute Care Settings. In Wester WC, Sugarman LI (eds) Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents. Crown House Publishing, Wales (In press, 2006) (Chapter 14)
Barnes, A.J. and Kohen, D.P. Clinical Hypnosis as an Effective Adjunct in the Care of Pediatric Inpatients. Journal of Pediatrics pp 563-565, 2006.
Kohen D.P. and Zajac, R. Self-Hypnosis Training for Headaches in Children and Adolescents. Journal of Pediatrics, in press, 2007.
Murray, K, Barnes, A, Ireland, M, and Kohen, D. Emotional-Behavioral Screening by Primary Care Practitioners: Attitudes, Practices, and Barriers. Poster presentation, Pediatric Academic Society Annual meeting (APA-SPR-APS), Toronto, May 2007.
Book Chapters
Kohen, Daniel P. “Depression” in Wester, W.C. and Sugarman, L.I. (eds) Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents Crown House Publishing Ltd. 2007 Chapter Nine, pp 179-198.
Sugarman, Laurence I and Kohen, Daniel P. “Integrating Hypnosis in Acute Care Settings” in Wester, WC and Sugarman, LI (eds) Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents Crown House Publishing Ltd. 2007 Chapter Fourteenn pp 301-331.
Kohen, D.P. and Murray, K. "Depression in Children and Youth: Applications of Hypnosis to Help Young People Help Themselves" in Yapko, MD (ed.). Applying Hypnosis in Treating Depression: Innovations in Clinical Practice, Routledge, 2006.
Teaching Activities
Dr. Dan Kohen was invited to teach a 2-day Introductory Workshop and 1-day Intermediate Workshop “Clinical Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents” for the Dutch Hypnosis Society in Amsterdam, March 23-24, 2007. Over 75 clinicians participated in the Workshops.
Dr. Kohen will teach a 2-day workshop “Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents” for the “M.E.G. - Kinderhypnose” (Milton Erickson Gesellschaft – Society) May 11-12, in Berlin and a 3-day “Pediatric Hypnosis Intensive-The State of the Art” May 17-19 in Rottweil, GERMANY.
Dr. Murray presented “Emotional-Behavioral Screening by Primary Care Practitioners: Attitudes, Practices, and Barriers”, to NASHP Site visit to the Minnesota Department of Health Universal Emotional/Behavioral Screening Project (ABCD II). September 28, 2006.
Dr. Andy Barnes and Dr. Betsy Murray will present a Workshop, “Introduction
to Clinical Hypnosis” to the U of MN 2007 Annual Family Practice UPDATE Wednesday, May 9, 2007
3:30.
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