The Foundation was established in January, 2000 as a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of research and education in clinical behavioral medicine.

The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit organization. We offer scholarships covering part of the cost of our courses to graduate students from any nation and to professionals from developing nations. We also fund research projects performed by graduate students majoring in Psychophysiology at Saybrook University. To cover these costs, 20% of the cost of your course(s) is considered a charitable donation to the Foundation. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent of the law. We will provide a letter incorporating a receipt. Please keep this written acknowledgment of your donation for your tax records.

These are continuing education, not university accredited, courses. The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Certain courses are accepted by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) and the International QEEG Certification Board (IQCB) for both certification and recertification.

There is one year to complete the course. Courses not completed by that time are void and must be repurchased if still available. No refunds are provided for courses not completed within one year of purchase.

Full payment for each course is required before access to the course is provided. Payment is by credit card though our web site’s secure ordering section or by check in US dollars made out to the Foundation and sent to the address below. Full refund will be made until students are given access to the course material. After getting access to the course material, there is no refund at all as the Foundation has committed its resources to you and you have access to all of the course materials. 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.

The Foundation give scholarships consisting of 25% off the cost of the course(s) to (a) students and professionals (e.g. clinicians, coaches, teachers) from emerging nations and (b) full time graduate students in developed nations.

Hearing impaired people can view the slides only as virtually all of the material presented in the lectures is typed onto the slides. Visually impaired people can concentrate on the verbal lectures as the slide material is repeated in the lecture accompanying each slide.

Anybody with a modern computer and a bit of basic understanding of computer operation (at the level of being able to send e-mails) can play this course with minimal problems. You must have a computer (a) capable of connecting to the internet and running a typical internet program, (b) containing/running a modern word processor such as Microsoft word or Word Perfect, (c) the capability to play sounds such as music (has speakers and appropriate software which normally come with any modern computer), and (d) a slide viewing program such as Power Point (you can probably get a slide viewing program free off the internet if you don’t have one). Any modern (e.g., built within the last ten years), IBM style computer running Windows 98 and more recent platforms (e.g., XP or Windows 8) should be able to do this. Speed, hard disk size, and RAM are not factors for computers in the above category.

Dozens of students have used recent Apple products (MACs etc.) for the course however they frequently have more difficulty playing the course materials than PC users do.

If you are using a MAC type of computer, you must have a current version of “quicktime”. If you do not have it, you can download it for free from the web.

These are continuing education and not university accredited courses. The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation is fully committed to conducting all activities in strict conformance with the Ethical Principles of the American Psychological Association. The Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation complies with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of program participants. The monitoring and assessment of compliance with these standards is the responsibility of the Foundation director, with the assistance of the administrative staff. While the Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation goes to great lengths to ensure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues that come to the attention of the faculty and administrative staff, which require intervention and/or action on the part of the office of the director. As stated in the Foundation bylaws, students may not be satisfied with some aspect of a course they have purchased including the responsiveness of the instructor, knowledge, and interactions with the student(s). Students must be able to effectively voice their complaints without risking retaliation, failing the course, etc.

The Foundation has an account at the anonymous comment submission site Incogneato (www.incognea.to). When a student submits a comment to our account (https://ansr.me/KN7ju) on the site, there is no way for us to know who sent the comment unless the student provides an email. Students are always welcome to submit comments to this site. We take them very seriously.

In accordance with accepted practice and law, BMR&TF will manage complaints as follows:

1. The administrator in the office of the director will receive all complaints. The administrator is not a member of the faculty and does not directly participate in academic programs. The administrator will always offer to refund the complainant tuition regardless of the basis of the complaint.

2. When the Foundation administrator is contacted about a problem with an instructor or course, the director (or the Foundation vice president if the director is the instructor) discusses the problem with the student and the instructor. If an informal discussion fails to rectify the situation, the student is again offered a refund and the following steps are taken.

3. The director (or the Foundation vice president in the case where the director is involved in the incident) will assign an impartial adjudicator who is uninvolved with the situation but knowledgeable in the field and/or course within 5 days of receiving the complaint. This is done regardless of whether the complainant withdraws the complaint and regardless of whether or not the complainant accepts the tuition refund.

4. The investigating officer will conduct a thorough investigation as rapidly as possible. A full opportunity for the complaining parties and the accused to explain their positions, present evidence, call witnesses, and so on will be provided. Every attempt will be made to keep the identity of the complainant anonymous.

5. Protection from reprisals for the good-faith complainant and for witnesses will be provided.

6. All academic and administrative staff and clients at BMR&TF will be informed of the institution policies concerning complaints as well as their responsibilities to the scientific community and to federal agencies through written material supplied during the research orientation and the staff handbooks.

7. All parties knowledgeable about the investigation will be informed that if the investigation determines that there was no problem and that the good-faith complaint was the result of a misunderstanding, etc., absolutely no action will be taken against the complainant. If the investigation determines that the complainant was not acting in good faith, then evidence of a crime has been uncovered and the institution is very likely to seek legal redress. If the investigation determines that there really is a problem, regardless of whether it is a problem with an instructor not performing adequately in accordance with the Foundation stated standards, a minor lapse of ethics or a legal issue etc. it will be dealt with and corrected rapidly.

8. A written record of all proceedings will be made and copies provided to all involved parties