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  Mar 29, 2024
 
2016-2017 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum 
    
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2016-2017 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum [Archived Catalog]

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MBM 5622 - Basic Training and Education in Biofeedback


This course provides students with a basic skill-set to conduct simple biofeedback interventions, along with knowledge about biofeedback concepts and approaches, and a familiarity with research-based applications of biofeedback to common medical and behavioral disorders. This course provides students with an introductory level of understanding helpful for engaging in biofeedback-based clinical practice and psychophysiological research in integrative health. This course introduces the most commonly used biofeedback instruments, the physiological systems they measure, and the applications of these biofeedback modalities to common medical and behavioral disorders. The Saybrook biofeedback training sequence covers the Blueprint of Knowledge adopted by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance, to guide training of biofeedback professionals (BCIA, 2006). The basic course covers the following elements of the blueprint: Orientation to Biofeedback (4 hours), Stress Coping and Illness/Models for Biofeedback Practice (4 hours), Psychophysiological Recording, part I (4 hours), surface EMG Applications, part I (4 hours), Adjunctive Interventions, part I (4 hours), and Autonomic Nervous System Applications, part I (4 hours). In addition, the course overviews current scientific approaches to research on biofeedback, and will discuss several approaches for utilizing biofeedback in psychotherapy, in optimal performance training in sports and the arts, and in personal transformation. 3 credit(s)
Offered: Offered FA - Term A. Course Length: Course Length: 8 Weeks. RC Required. Relevant Learning Outcomes: Relevant Learning Outcomes: 1.2 (3), 2.2 (3), 2.4 (3), 2.4 (3), 3.2 (4), 7.1 (3), 7.2 (3), 7.3 (3).




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