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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.

 

 

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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.

Research Techniques for Clinicians

45 Hours of CE Credit / Course Fee $550

Instructor Richard A. Sherman, PhD

Course Concept and Description: Students learn by watching audiovisual lectures provided on CDs, reading assignments both from materials provided on the CD and a text, and interacting with their instructor via e-mail. They answer short essay questions after each lecture rather than taking exams. Previous students have found that this course takes between 45 and 95 hours of work to perform.

Learning objectives: Welcome to research techniques for clinicians. This course is intended to acquaint you with the basic elements of how read the scientific literature intelligently and how a clinical research project is conducted from initiating the idea through presenting the results. The scientific method and its application to psychophysiological research and practice is emphasized.

Required Text: Sherman, R. Clinical Research. The book is on your CD.

Optional Statistical Software: If you want to practice the statistical techniques you will learn during this course, you will need to have access to any modern, PC based biostatistics program such as SPSS. Student versions of various appropriate software packages are under several hundred dollars. If you don't have access to a program, I strongly recommend SPSSPC. One of our graduate students just looked into the purchase and found the following: "You can purchase the software at journeyed.com. The cost of the graduate pack is usually $199.99. You can get the student version for $85.00, but it expires in one year. The grad pack expires in 4 years and has unlimited variable capacity."¯

To get CE credit for this course: You will complete five written assignments corresponding to each of the sections of the book. Each assignment should be done shortly after you finish the lectures associated with the corresponding section of the book. Note that there are no single word answers in any of the assignments. Each assignment will take you between two and five single spaced pages to answer adequately. Do not answer questions from the book.
You can expect to write two versions of each assignment as I will return assignments with any problems for correction. When you e-mail me a revision of a draft I critiqued, enter your revised answers on the file I sent you containing my critique so I can look at my comments and your response simultaneously.

Topics we will cover:

Introduction
1. Rationale - the crucial need to understand and use clinical research
2. The scientific method

Section A. The need to know what you are doing

  1. The basic steps and time-line of a project
  2. Defensive reading of clinical literature - does the hypothesis make sense?
  3. Protocol development - formulating and maturing a question
  4. Background and literature searches
  5. Determining feasibility
  6. Research ethics
  7. The research protocol approval process
  8. Pitfalls in the first steps

Section B. Basic study structures for the office and clinic environment

  1. The logic and progression of designs
  2. Exploratory single subject and single group designs
  3. Observational studies - longitudinal & cross-sectional designs
  4. Prospective experimental study designs
  5. Outcome and quality of life studies
  6. The protocol's research plan and design
  7. Defensive reading of clinical literature - does the design fit the needs?
  8. Pitfalls in study design

Section C. Establishing the credibility of data and clinical publications

  1. Subject selection techniques - sampling, inclusion - exclusion
  2. Hardening subjective data
  3. Validity and reliability - defensive data entry
  4. Survey, test, and questionnaire design
  5. Defensive reading of clinical literature - can you trust the subjects and data?
  6. Pitfalls in data gathering methodology

Section D. Statistics for evaluating literature & interpreting clinical data

  1. Concepts of clinical data analysis
  2. Descriptive statistics for evaluating clinical data
  3. Probability and significance testing
  4. Decision / Risk analysis
  5. Power analysis - determining the optimal number of subjects
  6. Evaluation of overlap between groups through inferential statistics
  7. Evaluation of relationships between changing variables
  8. Dichotomous and proportional data
  9. Outliers - data points that don't meet expectations
  10. Pattern analysis
  11. Survival / life table analysis
  12. Defensive reading of clinical literature: Handling the data
  13. Pitfalls in study analysis

Section E. Administrative aspects of research (permission to do studies, presentations, etc.)

  1. Getting permission to perform the study
  2. The protocol - incorporating statistics
  3. The grant - extramural funding process
  4. Writing and presenting the study
  5. The publication submission and review process
  6. Changing clinical practice based on what you did and read
  7. Defensive reading of clinical literature - does the conclusion match the raw data, the data analysis, the hypothesis, and the background?
  8. Pitfalls in the overall research process

Faculty: Dr. Richard Sherman's areas of interest spanning over thirty-five years of teaching, research, and clinical work in psychophysiology (Ph.D. from New York University) include elucidating mechanisms and treatments for phantom limb pain, determining the effectiveness of pulsed electromagnetic fields for treatment of migraine headaches, and describing temporal relationships between changes in muscle tension and pain. He has been president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. Dr. Sherman is currently director of the Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation and Dean of the Clinical Psychophysiology Doctoral Program at the University of Natural Medicine. He has written over 130 articles and books related to pain and behavioral medicine.

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