Schedule your innovative training course which is designed to teach your staff biofeedback fundamentals and cutting-edge applications. This Biofeedback Certification Course is intended for start up clinics or practices. Requires a minimum of 6 participants.

This program covers all 48 hours of the BCIA Didactic Biofeedback Education requirement through powerful demonstrations of biofeedback and adjunctive procedures, imaginative hands-on lab exercises with multi-channel computerized equipment, professional multimedia presentations, and comprehensive review materials. This program integrates personal hands-on training with equipment with didactic presentation.

Participants will learn:

• The foundations of biofeedback
• Physiological basis and recording of surface electromyography (sEMG), temperature, electrodermal activity (EDA), respiration patterns (strain gauges and pCO2), electroencephalography (EEG), peripheral blood flow (BVP), heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), and economic biofeedback approaches (including incentive inspirometers and scales)
• How to identifying artifacts and determining appropriate recording
• How to record and interpret data
• How to perform a psychophysiological profile and pre and post data comparison
• The use of adjunctive techniques such as progressive relaxation training, autogenic training, imagery, guided breathing, desensitization, mindfulness training, quieting reflex.
• The role of home biofeedback devices such as Freeze framer, Wild Divine, and GSR2
• Overview of clinical and educational applications

Deposit

$1500.00 deposit is required. Deposit is non-refundable but may be applied to future programs.

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations must be received in writing three weeks before the course date. An administrative fee of $500.00 will be charged. We reserve the right to cancel. Although cancellation is extremely unlikely, should it be necessary, deposits will be refunded. We cannot be held responsible for restricted or non-refundable airfares.

Travel expenses for the trainer(s) are not included in the per person fee. This expense may vary depending on the location of the training. Normally travel expenses within the continental US do not exceed $1500. Organization holding the training will be responsible for travel expenses for the trainer(s). Courses limited to 10.

Day 1

• Orientation for Biofeedback (4 hours)
• Psychophysiological Recording: Essential terms and concepts, and shock hazard (2 hours)
• Psychophysiological Recording: EMG description and artifact (2 hours)
• Professional Conduct: Responsibility and Competence, and Client Rights (2 hours)
• Labs: Common EMG placements, and ergonomics

Day 2

• SEMG Applications (8 hours)
• Psychophysiological Recording: TEMP and PPG description and artifact (1 hour)
• Labs: Effortless breathing, temperature, and PPG

Day 3

• Psychophysiological Recording: EKG and HRV description and artifact (1hour)
• Stress, Coping, Illness (4 hours)
• Adjunctive Interventions: Intake procedures and Relaxation methods (4 hours)
• Labs: EDA, EKG, and HRV

Day 4

• Autonomic Applications (8 hours)
• Professional Conduct: Supervision and Consultation, Professional
• Relationships, and Record Keeping (2 hours)
• Labs: Hand-warming and stress profile

Day 5

• Psychophysiological Recording: EEG description and artifact (2 hours)
• EEG Applications (4 hours)
• Adjunctive Interventions: Psychotherapeutic techniques and cognitive interventions (2 hours)
• Adjunctive Interventions: Nutritional considerations and effects of exercise (2 hours)
• Labs: 10-20 system and common EEG placements

Fred Shaffer, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Truman State University and founded an innovative biofeedback and applied psychophysiology program in 1977. He has served as the President of the Missouri Biofeedback Society (1981-1983), AAPB Education Chair (2001-2003), and on the AAPB (2002-2005) and BCIA Boards (2005). He was a 2005 recipient of the AAPB Sheila Adler Distinguished Service Award. He is the co-author of several scientific articles and has recently written a chapter with Don Moss entitled "Biofeedback" for the Textbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2nd ed.). He has also co-authored with Don Moss the Heart Rate Variability Training CD for the Biofeedback Federation of Europe. He is the producer and author of Biofeedback Tutor, a multimedia training program developed for the BCIA General Examination in Biofeedback. His research interests focus on heart rate variability and respiratory self-regulation.

Erik Peper, Ph.D. is an international authority on biofeedback and self-regulation. He is Professor and Co-Director of the Institute for Holistic Healing Studies / Department of Health Education at San Francisco State University. He has developed and teaches the class HH430: Biofeedback and Self-regulation. He is President of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe and past President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He holds Senior Fellow (Biofeedback) certification from the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. He received the 2004 California Governor's Safety Award for his work on Healthy Computing and the 1988 Certificate of Honor Award from the Biofeedback Society of California. He was a 2005 recipient of the AAPB Sheila Adler Distinguished Service Award. He was the behavioral scientist (sport psychologist) for the United States Rhythmic Gymnastic team. He is an author of numerous scientific articles and books. He edited and wrote the initial seminal texts on biofeedback, Mind/Body Integration: Essential Readings in Biofeedback and From the Inside Out: A Self-Teaching and Laboratory Manual for Biofeedback. His most recent co-authored books are Healthy Computing with Muscle Biofeedback, Make Health Happen Training: Yourself to Create Wellness and De Computermens. He is also the co-producer of weekly Healthy Computing Email Tips. His research interests focus on psychophysiology of healing, voluntary self-regulation, holistic health, healthy computing, respiratory psychophysiology and optimizing health with biofeedback.