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This is where clinicians and educators come for biofeedback training and to add behavioral medicine techniques to their skill sets.

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Schedule: You can start our courses whenever you purchase them and work at your own pace as long as you complete the course within two years of purchase. Just contact us at contact@behavmedfoundation.org or 800 530 6658 to get started.
Duration of course validity: You must begin the course within one year of the purchase date and complete it within two years of the purchase date. Courses not completed by that time are void and must be repurchased if still available. No refunds are provided for courses not completed within two years of purchase.

CE Credit: These are continuing education, not university accredited, courses. CE credits are given through (1) the state of California’s Board of Behavioral Sciences (Approval # PCE1895); (2) The National Board of Certified Counselors (Provider # 6270), and (3) The American Psychological Association.

BCIA: These courses are accepted by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance for both certification (in the case of basic courses) and recertification.

Payment, Refund, Scholarship, and cancellation policies: Full payment for each course is required before the course materials can be mailed. Payment is by credit card though our web site’s secure ordering section (www.biofeedback-training.org) or by check in US dollars made out to the Foundation and sent to the letterhead address. Full refund will be made until the CDs are mailed to you. After the CDs are mailed, there is no refund at all as the Foundation has committed its resources to you. A course would only be cancelled due to an extreme emergency on the part of the course instructor or the Foundation. In the highly unlikely event a course is cancelled, you would receive a full refund.

Scholarships: The Foundation gives two types of scholarships.

1. $150 off the cost of any of our 30 CE and up courses for (a) students and clinicians from emerging nations and (b) full time students in developed nations who meet our criteria for financial need.

2. Full scholarship covering the cost of registration to the Association for Applied Psychophysiology’s annual meeting to one student per year who is not yet a member of AAPB and has never attended a meeting of this society. The student must have taken or be taking a course from the Foundation and join AAPB as a student member to receive this scholarship.

Multicourse Discounts: People taking a second course through the Foundation pay $100 less than the cost of all subsequent courses earning more than 30 CEs. To arrange your discount, send an e-mail to the Foundation at contact@behavmedfoundation.org when you register for the course.

Shipping course materials: All course materials (normally CDs) are shipped via regular US Mail as part of the cost of the course. If you want some other form of shipment such as second day air, priority mail, or courier service (Fed Ex, etc.) you must arrange to pay for the additional service by sending an e-mail to the Foundation at contact@behavmedfoundation.org when you before purchasing the course.

CD replacement policies: In those rare cases where a CD arrives damaged, it will be replaced for free immediately. There is a $20 charge to replace lost course CDs.

Course updates: Updates to all courses are provided free of charge via regular mail or e-mail during the two years the course is valid or until completion, whichever comes first.

 

For additional information, contact us by:
E-mail at: contactbehavmedfoundation.org

Phone with toll from outside the US & Canada: 1 360 452 9528

Phone toll free in the US and Canada:
1 800 530 6658
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM United States
Pacific Time Monday - Friday

Mail at: 6576 Blue Mountain Road,
Port Angeles, WA 98362

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F A Q

Who Are Our Courses For?
Clinicians, Educators, & Coaches.
We do not offer training directly to patients.

Can I Get CEC's?
YES! Our courses offer between 35 and 50 CE's. Our  CE courses are approved / accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC), California's Boards of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, and (for most) BCIA.

How Do I Know These are Quality Courses?
Our Programs, Courses and Instructors are independently evaluated by state and national organizations, such as BCIA, APA, and NBCC so you can be assured of a top notch experience.

Are our Courses Approved by BCIA?
YES! We provide the required training for certification in general biofeedback, EEG biofeedback / neurofeedback, and pelvic floor disorders. You can also use our courses for recertification.

What Education Level Are Our Courses Set At?
Postgraduate (Masters and Doctorate level).
Note that these are difficult courses. They require about the same amount of time, work, and effort as any three credit graduate science class.

How Do I Take (sign-up for / register for) a Course?
These are distance education courses. Just purchase the course here at our web site and use our secure ordering site to pay by credit card or check in US funds. You can start when you wish to and work at your own pace.   

What Are Classes Like?
The courses are very similar to "in-person"¯ courses except that you communicate with your instructor via phone or e-mail. We make sure every student gets personal attention from instructors with decades of experience. You receive CDs containing audiovisual lectures, reading material files, movies, etc. You start the class when you are ready and work at your own pace. For most courses you also read a required text. After you attend each lecture, you answer a set of short essay questions and e-mail them to your instructor. You and your instructor communicate by e-mail or phone to go over any questions you have and to add additional information you may want.

Introduction
to
Behavioral and Alternative Medicine

45 hours of CE credit, $550

At home learning format based on audiovisual CD lectures and readings. You can start anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail.

Professor: Richard A. Sherman, PhD rsherman@nwinet.com; 360 452 5020

Concept / Objectives:
Complimentary and alternative (C & A) practices, including those which form the core of “behavioral medicine” are rapidly finding acceptance within the clinical community. Simultaneously, “accepted” practices are falling from favor as they are shown to be ineffective or even counterproductive. Patients now visit as many or more “alternative” providers as traditional providers and are spending billions of dollars on attempts to get care not available from the traditional medical community. This course is intended to acquaint you with many of those practices which may become the new standard of care in the near future. It is also intended to help you learn to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the claims made by the proponents of these practices so you can more readily separate the real knowledge from the emotional advertising.

Specifically, this course intends to:

  1. Provide you with an introduction to the basic mechanisms and principles of behavioral medicine and its most common techniques.
  2. Provide you with a balanced overview of a selection of complimentary and alternative medicine interventions recently and currently practiced in the “West”.
  3. Provide information on the underlying psychophysiological mechanisms through which non-specific interventions are likely to produce very real effects.
  4. Provide you with practice in and techniques for objectively assessing the validity of claims presented in formats different than usually acceptable to current “Western” science.

Texts:

Required:

  1. Mosby’s Complementary & Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach. By Lyn W. Freeman and G. Frank Lawlis. Published by Mosby of St. Louis Mo. In 2001. ISBN: 0323 00 6973.
  2. Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Edited by W Jonas and J Levin, Published by Lipincott / Williams & Wilkins publishers of Baltimore MD, 1999, ISBN 0-683-30674-X.

Optional:

Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation Edited by Eric Leskowitz, Published by Elsevier (Churchill Livingston) of Edinburgh and New York. 2003, ISBN 0-443-06599-3.

Format (How we are going to proceed through the course): This home study course is divided into 28 units. Each unit consists of one of more chapters of reading in the texts, sometimes an audiovisual lecture, review questions to be answered, and an e-mail or phone based discussion with me. The course begins with an introductory audiovisual lecture profusely illustrated by power-point slides.

When you sign up for the course, I will mail you a CD containing both the audiovisual lectures and a copy of the slide set upon which the lectures are based so you can make notes on your copy of the slides as you attend the lecture. After doing the reading for each unit (and attending the audiovisual lecture when provided), you will answer a brief series of essay questions about each topic, e-mail your answers to me, and then we will interact by e-mail or phone about each topic. This will give you an opportunity to ask questions and for me to fill in gray areas and provide additional information on topics of special interest to you.

Topic Outline / Reading & Listening Assignments:

  1. Introduction – How medical practice changes – the history of C & A practices
    Audiovisual lecture 1; Jonas/Levin introduction, chapter 1
  2. Evaluating credibility of claims for efficacy of C & A products and practices
    Audiovisual lecture 2; Jonas/Levin 4 and 5; Freeman/Lawlis Appendix A
    (Note that audiovisual lecture 2 presents similar material to that presented in the UNM and Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation courses on general biofeedback. You can skip listening to the lectures if you had these courses but still must answer the review questions.)
  3. Evaluating the safety of C & A products and practices Jonas/Levin Introduction to part II,
    chapters 6 10
  4. Potential indirect mechanisms Freeman/Lawlis 1 – 4
  5. Overview of alternative medicine techniques Jonas/Levin Introduction to Part III, Audiovisual lectures 4-6. (Note that audiovisual lectures 4-6 present similar material to that presented in the UNM and Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation courses on pain.
    You can skip listening to the lectures if you had these courses but still must answer the review questions.)
  6. Relaxation Freeman/Lawlis 5
  7. Meditation Freeman/Lawlis 6 Jonas/Levin 30
  8. Hypnotherapy Freeman/Lawlis 8 Jonas/Levin 25
  9. Imagery Freeman/Lawlis 9
  10. Chiropractic Freeman/Lawlis 10 Jonas/Levin 15
  11. Acupuncture, Qigong, & Traditional Chinese Medicine Freeman/Lawlis 11 Jonas/Levin 12, 19, 23
  12. Homeopathy Freeman/Lawlis 12 Jonas/Levin 28
  13. Massage Therapy Freeman/Lawlis 13 Jonas/Levin 22
  14. Herbal Medicine (Phytomedicine) Freeman/Lawlis 14 Jonas/Levin 20
  15. Exercise Freeman/Lawlis 15
  16. Electromagnetic Medicine Freeman/Lawlis 16
  17. Spiritual Medicine Freeman/Lawlis 17 Jonas/Levin 21
    Article by M. Shermer on CD in file “flying carpets”
  18. Therapeutic Touch Freeman/Lawlis 18
  19. Trigger Points Audiovisual lecture 6 (Note that audiovisual lecture 6 presents similar material to that presented in the UNM and Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation courses on pain. You can skip listening to the lectures if you had these courses but still must answer the review questions.)
  20. Holistic Nursing Jonas/Levin 18
  21. Osteopathy Jonas/Levin 16
  22. Naturopathy Jonas/Levin 17
  23. Diets / Vitamins Jonas/Levin 27, 29
  24. Ayurvedic Medicine Jonas/Levin 11
  25. Native American Medicine Jonas/Levin 13
  26. Biofeedback Freeman/Lawlis 7; Jonas/Levin 24
    Note that the biofeedback topic is optional if you have taken or are going to take the Foundation’s general biofeedback course.
  27. Behavioral Medicine from a psychiatric perspective Jonas/Levin 26
  28. Incorporating Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine to practice. Ethics and the decision to change practice.Jonas/Levin 3Audiovisual lecture 7. (Note: This lecture is similar to one given in the UNM and Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation’s general biofeedback courses. You do not have to listen to the lecture again if you took the course from one of these groups but you do have to answer the review questions.)
  29. Further information Freeman/Lawlis Appendix C & D; Jonas/Levin App. A Schedule: You can begin the course any time you want to and proceed at your own speed. Just contact us at rsherman@nwinet.com or (360) 452-5020 to get started.

Faculty: The course is directed and coordinated by Dr. Richard Sherman.
Richard A. Sherman, PhD is certified by BCIA, approved by BCIA to teach the general biofeedback certification course, and currently teaches A&P for the Behavioral Medicine R& T Foundation. He is a professional psychophysiologist with extensive training (his PhD is in biology / physiology) and has nearly 30 years of experience in the field.

Administrative Info:

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  • Schedule
  • CE Credit
  • BCIA
  • Computer and Computer Knowledge Requirements
  • Refund, Cancellation, & CD Replacement Policies
  • Multicourse Discounts
  • Shipping of course materials
  • Course Updates

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