바이오피드백 온라인 48시간 과정 코스 BA113

Strongly Recommended Texts: The cost of the recommended texts is not included in the course fee. No text is absolutely required for the course because most of the text of the following Pain Assessment book is on the course web site. Students are strongly urged to purchase one of the recommended texts. Your instructor can help you make the choice.

Texts are available for purchase on our web site.

a. Pain Assessment and Intervention From a Psychophysiological Perspective by Richard A. Sherman. Combined print/CD version published by AAPB 2012 (order from the Behavioral Medicine Foundation’s web site (behavmedfoundation.org) or AAPB’s bookstore (800 477-8892). This book may be on the course web site so check before ordering it.

b. Biofeedback: A Practitioner’s guide. Edited by Mark Schwartz and Frank Andrasik. Guilford Press of New York, 2003.  Discounted purchase available through AAPB’s bookstore (800 477-8892).

Recommended Texts (Especially for people intending to take the BCIA exam):

a. Introduction to Surface Electromyography by Jeffrey R. Cram and Glenn S. Kasman with Jonathan Holtz. Aspen, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1998.

b. Clinical Applications in Surface Electromyography – Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain by Glenn S. Kasman, Jeffrey R. Cram, and Steven L. Wolf. Aspen, Gaithersburg, Maryland 1998.

Very optional text only for those who intend to do brain wave (EEG) biofeedback:

Getting Started with Neurofeedback by John N. Demos. WW Norton & Company, NY, 2005.  Discounted purchase available through AAPB’s bookstore (800 477-8892).

NOTE: I urge you to take the Foundation’s EEG Biofeedback / Neurofeedback course before actually doing neurofeedback.

Course Contents / Order of Lectures and Readings:   (Note that there are 28 required lectures)

After listening to each lecture, do the assigned reading, watch the assigned movies, and follow along in the pain text.

The numbered items include review questions students must answer to receive credit for the             course.

Note that in accordance with BCIA requirements, this course includes at least the following number of hours of education in the following topics scattered through all of the lectures: (a) 4 hours of introduction to / history of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback, (b) 4 hours of stress, coping & illness, (c) 8 hours of psychophysiological recording information, (d) 8 hours of SEMG applications, (e) 8 hours of ANS applications, (f) 4 hours of EEG applications, (g) 8 hours of introduction to standard adjunctive techniques, and (h) 4 hours of professional conduct/ethics.

Administrative introduction 

1. Basic concepts and Credibility

2. Stress and disease

3. Electricity, Muscles, and SEMG

4. Development and nerves

5. Pain 1: Referred pain, EEG, and blood flow

6. Pain 2: Headache

7. Pain 3: Low back pain, trigger points

8. Recording 1: Equipment overview

9.  Recording 2: SEMG

10. Recording 3: GSR, respiration, Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability

11. Recording 4: Temperature, and EEG

12. Assessment 1: Interviews and tracking changes

13.  Assessment 2: Psychophysiological profiles

14. Assessment 3: Low back pain and headaches

15. Assessment 4: Phantom Pain & Pelvic floor

16. Assessment 5: Norms and habituation

17. Associated techniques: Relaxation training, meditation, cognitive restructuring, etc.

18. Treatment 1: Techniques overview, model protocol

19. Treatment 2: Muscle and blood flow related problems

20 Treatment 3 & 4: Pelvic floor interventions 1 and 2

21. Treatment 5 & 6: Anxiety, ADHD, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, Raynauds, addiction, etc.

22. Cases and tricks

23. Ethics

24. Decision Making & Conclusion