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

What We Do

Online Courses

Biofeedback Info & Equipment

 

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.

Formal Training Needed to Perform Biofeedback Effectively

You can not do biofeedback effectively just by purchasing a machine and attaching patients to it. Biofeedback isn't a form of magic performed on a black box body and mind. Rather, you need to know how to integrate psychophysiological assessments and biofeedback interventions into a wide body of clinical skills and knowledge bases.

At the very least, you need a basic understanding of human anatomy and physiology / human behavioral biology, a basic course in biofeedback - and then perhaps a specialized one depending on what you want to do, know how the machines actually work to record and feedback signals (instrumentation), and the principles of research design and the placebo effect so you don't think you are helping people when you aren't and so you can tell which treatments are worth trying.

The following four talks are only ten minutes or so long and will guide you through each of the above requirements.

This series of talks are slideshow presentations. They require PowerPoint or the PowerPoint viewer. You can download the viewer for free here.

If you have high speed internet and want to hear the presenter talking as well as see the slides, click on any of the first set of talks.

If you have a slower internet connection or just want to see the slides (same information either way), click on any of the second set of talks.

 

Slideshows with audio (larger file size):

Audio 1. Why do you need an anatomy and physiology course?

Audio 2. Why do you need a basic and then an advanced biofeedback course?

Audio 3. Why do you need to know the principles of research and the placebo effect?

Audio 4. Why do you need to know the details of how biofeedback devices work?

 

Slideshows with text only (without audio) (smaller file size):

Text 1. Why do you need an anatomy and physiology course?

Text 2. Why do you need a basic and then an advanced biofeedback course?

Text 3. Why do you need to know the principles of research and the placebo efect?

Text 4. Why do you need to know the details of how biofeedback devices work?

 

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