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in partnership with the

Behavioral Medicine Research & Training

Foundation

Non-profit Scientific & Educational Organization 91-1948669

operating under Section 501c3 of the US Internal Revenue Code

6576 Blue Mountain Road, Port Angeles, WA 98362

1 July, 2013

Psychophysiology Program

Continuing Education Courses

Saybrook University and the Behavioral Medicine Research and Training Foundation have
partnered to offer continuing education courses in many areas of psychophysiology including
biofeedback and related topics. These courses are intended for professionals such as clinicians,
coaches, and educators rather than the public. As these are continuing education courses,
students earn CE credits for each course rather than college course credit. The courses are not
part of a certification program but can be applied to several such programs. Students do receive a
course completion certificate upon successful completion of a course.

Psychophysiology and its role in health care, education, and optimal performance
coaching: Applied psychophysiology focuses on the amelioration / treatment and prevention of
disease, reduction of stress responses, and creation of optimal performance through teaching
people techniques for recognizing and correcting abnormal physiological responses. Every
course offered in this program is based on solid research published in main-stream journals.
Efficacy of each technique taught is discussed and substantiated.

About the courses:

Our continuing education courses are available to clinicians, coaches,

and educators interested in learning about psychophysiology and biofeedback. This
combination of courses is intended to provide professionals with the basic knowledge they need
to understand psychophysiology and incorporate it into their practices. They are all in distance /
home learning, format including pre-recorded audiovisual lectures, movies, readings in texts, and
frequent interactions with the instructor. Students work at their own paces and have up to a year
after the date of purchase to complete a course. All course material is accessed from the course
web site so people interested in our courses must have consistent access to the internet.

These are distance learning courses (rather than self directed learning courses) as there is substantial

interaction between the faculty and student. Distance education refers to instruction delivered to students
who are separated from their instructor and in support of regular and substantive interaction between

them, whether in real time or through time delay. Substantial interaction is where a student and a faculty
participate

back and forth discussions on an educational topic.

Personal attention:

Each student gets personal attention from our instructors - each of whom have

decades of experience in psychophysiology. They can help you with decisions on which
equipment to purchase, guide you through psychophysiological portions of interventions with
complex patients, etc.

Accreditation: / CE Approvals: These are CE rather than university credit courses. Saybrook
University is regionally accredited and approved to grant degrees by the state of California. The
Foundation is approved to give

CE credits by (1) the state of California’s Board of Behavioral Sciences

(Approval # PCE1895); (2) The National Board of Certified Counselors (Provider # 6270), and (3) the
Behavioral Medicine R&T Foundation is approved by the American Psychological Association to
sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Foundation maintains responsibility for this program
and its content.

BCIA credit toward certification and recertification: These courses are accepted by the
Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) for use toward certification and
recertification. BCIA is the main certification organization for biofeedback.

Course completion certificates: The courses are not part of a certification program but students
do receive a personalized course completion certificate upon successful completion of a course.
The certificate indicates how many CEs were earned, the topic of the course, the presenting
organization and the organizations which have accredited / approved the program.

Purchasing courses: Courses can be purchased from Biofeedback International Resources

by clicking the Buy Me button for the specific course here.

Full refund will be made until the students are given access to the course website.

After getting access to the course website, there is no refund at all, as Saybrook University and the

Foundation have committed their 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.

Course List:

1. Ethics for Biofeedback Providers (Ethics for People Doing Biofeedback)

– 5 CE

credits, $150. At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings. You
can start anytime and work at your own pace for up to one year. This APA approved
course is intended for clinicians, educators, and coaches who have incorporated or are
interested in incorporating biofeedback (including neurofeedback) intervention and
psychophysiological assessment techniques into their practices. It emphasizes issues in
ethics and professional conduct which are of special interest to clinicians incorporating
biofeedback - many of which are not clearly spelled out in typical codes of ethics and
conduct promulgated by clinical organizations. Participants attend three audiovisual
lectures (hear the instructor’s voice while watching slides), read text files, and interact
with the instructor via e-mail. At the end of the course, participants answer a set of short
essay questions covering key concepts in the course. No text is required for this course.

General Biofeedback / Psychophysiological assessment and intervention

– 50 hours

of CE credit, $750. At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings.
You can start anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year.
Extensive

personal attention

to your individual needs and tailoring the course to your

proposed uses of biofeedback is a key part of the course package.

Expand your practice to include more types of patients and different disorders. Learn how to do
biofeedback, psychophysiological assessments, and the basics of many other behavioral
medicine techniques. This is the BCIA required general biofeedback certification course. It
provides the basic knowledge needed to perform psychophysiological assessments and
interventions including biofeedback.
DISCLAIMER: Completion of this continuing education course is strictly for educational /
informational purposes and does not imply competency, proficiency, and/or experience. The
course completion certificate is not a clinical certification nor a license to practice.

Anatomy and physiology / human biology for behavioral clinicians

– 45 hours of CE

credit, $750. At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings. You
can start anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year. Extensive

personal attention

Learn enough about how the body works to get a better grasp of the physical bases for your
patients’ disorders. Learn how the muscles work together to produce movements so you know
what’s normal and what’s not. Be able to communicate better with your medical colleagues and
understand their lingo and tests. This course is equivalent to a three credit undergraduate course
in A & P / Human Biology and meets BCIA’s requirements for having this course for
certification and recertification in biofeedback and neurofeedback. The course covers all the
basic areas of A & P but from a behavioral perspective. For example, when we talk about bones,
we concentrate on how stress effects healing fractures and reshaping bone structures. When we
talk about muscles, we talk about how they work together to produce movements. Your tuition
covers the CDs containing the audiovisual lectures and some reading materials as well as the
web based chats but not the cost of the textbooks.

Basic EEG Biofeedback / neurofeedback:

– 45 hours of CE credit, $750. At home

learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings. You can start anytime and

work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year. Extensive

personal attention

your individual needs and tailoring the course to your proposed uses of biofeedback is a
key part of the course package.

Expand your practice to include more types of patients and different disorders. Learn how to do
EEG biofeedback / neurofeedback. This is the BCIA required EEG biofeedback certification
course. It provides the basic knowledge needed to perform EEG biofeedback. After taking this
course you will still need to get hands on experience using EEG biofeedback devices before you
can add EEG biofeedback to your practice. Contact us about how to get this further training.

DISCLAIMER: Completion of this continuing education course is strictly for educational /

informational purposes and does not imply competency, proficiency, and/or experience. The
course completion certificate is not a clinical certification nor a license to practice.

Pain Assessment and Intervention for Behavioral Clinicians

– 45 hours of CE credit,

$750. At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings. You can start
anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year. Extensive

personal

attention

This course describes the physiological and psychophysiological mechanisms underlying acute
and chronic pain. It then explains the common behavioral assessment and interventional
strategies (relaxation training, biofeedback, cognitive restructuring, etc.) for both headache and
pain. The course also delves into typical pharmacological, surgical, and alternative (hypnosis,
massage, chiropractic, therapeutic touch, etc.) approaches to pain evaluation and control. By the
end of the course, participants should be sufficiently familiar with the typical approaches to pain
assessment and control used in the medical community so the participant will know how
behavioral treatments and assessments fit into the overall program and to permit good
communication with medical colleagues around pain related issues. Sample protocols for
treatment of migraine and tension headache as well as upper and lower back pain are detailed
and provided.

DISCLAIMER: Completion of this continuing education course is strictly for educational /

informational purposes and does not imply competency, proficiency, and/or experience. The
course completion certificate is not a clinical certification nor a license to practice.

Behavioral Assessment & Treatment of Pelvic Floor Disorders

- 45 hours of CE

credit, $750. At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings. You
can start anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year. Extensive

personal attention

This course provides a basic understanding of pelvic floor functions and structures along with
clinical etiologies of pelvic floor disorders, including urinary, bowel, and pain problems, treated
by behavioral interventions. It provides detailed rationales, supporting documentation, and
clinical protocols for behavioral interventions so health care providers have the knowledge base
needed to provide these interventions to their clients within their scopes of practice and expertise
after the providers gain hands-on experience by working with experienced practitioners. If you
are only interested in working with adults having urinary and fecal incontinence, instead of
taking this course you may want to take our course “behavioral interventions for adult urinary
and fecal incontinence”.

DISCLAIMER: Completion of this continuing education course is strictly for educational /
informational purposes and does not imply competency, proficiency, and/or experience. The
course completion certificate is not a clinical certification nor a license to practice.

Hypnosis in psychophysiology

- 45 hours of CE credit, $750. At home learning format

based on audiovisual lectures and readings. You can start anytime and work with the
instructor via e-mail for up to one year.

The standard techniques of Clinical Hypnosis are described and students are taught the elements
of their application. Uses of hypnotic techniques with specific types of patients and integration of
these techniques into other behavioral medicine interventions are discussed. It is the intent of this
course to 1. Provide students with a basic background and appreciation of the history of clinical
hypnosis and provide and introduction to a variety of current theories of the mechanisms of
hypnosis. 2. Provide students with sufficient knowledge to understand pertinent legal and ethical
considerations related to the use of clinical hypnosis, and 3. Provide an overview of the
empirically validated uses of hypnosis. An optional in-person training session is available at
extra cost to provide students with fundamental skills needed to induce a hypnotic state to make
clinical use of the hypnotic condition in a variety of situations.

8. Neuropsychophysiology (Nervous System Functions in Psychophysiology)

45 hours

of CE credit, $750. At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures and readings.
You can start anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year.

This course covers central and peripheral nervous system anatomy and physiology and finishes
with an emphasis on nervous system pathophysiology. This is the course to take after completing
a basic course in EEG neurofeedback. It provides advanced information so people performing
neurofeedback have a better understanding of brain functioning. The brain/spinal cord plexus is
discussed from both anatomical and physiological perspectives concentrating on plasticity in
response to changes in the external and internal environment as well as viewing the system as an
interactive organ with hormonal, nerve based, and blood flow based feedback and control
systems. Psychophysiological recording methodology including EEG and scans such as MEG
and PET are examined in relation to their uses in behavioral medicine. Neurological disorders
centered on the CNS (such as epilepsy) are discussed in relationship to psychophysiological
evaluations and behavioral interventions.

Neuromuscular Reeducation in Biofeedback

- 45 hours of CE credit, $750. At home

learning format based on audiovisual CD lectures and readings. You can start anytime
and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year.

This course teaches the elements of kinesiological movement science and how control of
movement is distorted by different clinical conditions. The course includes the elements of (a)
trigger point, (b) posture, and (c) motor control / coordination assessment. Methods for using
psychophysiological recording techniques for assessment of movement related disorders and

postural problems are illustrated. The impact of poor posture and improper sequencing of muscle
motions as well as of improper levels of tension on development and sustainment of various pain
problems such as tension headaches and low back pain are discussed. Techniques for using
sEMG biofeedback and other psychophysiological techniques to correct these problems are
illustrated.
DISCLAIMER: Completion of this continuing education course is strictly for educational /
informational purposes and does not imply competency, proficiency, and/or experience. The
course completion certificate is not a clinical certification nor a license to practice.

10.

Biological basis of behavior / Introduction to psychophysiology

– 45hours of CE

credit, $750. At home learning format based on audiovisual CD lectures and readings.
You can start anytime and work with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year.
Extensive

personal attention

Learn the real basics of how the mind and body work together to produce behavior – and where
the interactions go wrong. This course provides the basics of how the mind and body work
together. It includes behavioral genetics, research techniques, psychophysiology of behaviors
such as eating and drinking, respiration, pain, etc.

11.

Research Techniques for Clinicians -

45 hours of CE credit, $750. At home learning

format based on audiovisual CD lectures and readings. You can start anytime and work
with the instructor via e-mail for up to one year. Extensive

personal attention

This is a course in self-defense for clinicians who need to know how to assess the clinical
literature and folklore to decide whether to try a new technique or believe in new treatments. It
also teaches clinicians how to assess their own work to insure that it is optimally efficacious. The
course material includes the book “research for clinicians”.

12.

Introduction to Behavioral and Alternative Medicine - 45 CEs, $750

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

personal attention

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.

Certificate of Professional Studies in Psychophysiology -

The Foundation offers a Certificate of Professional Studies in Clinical Psychophysiology to

clinicians taking six of our core courses and receiving mentored experience performing
behavioral interventions.

This certificate can be a very valuable way to provide evidence of solid training in

psychophysiological techniques and biofeedback. The certificate lists the courses taken, the
number of hours of training in each, and the major topics in which training was provided.
The training required for the certificate goes well beyond that required for certification in
biofeedback by organizations such as the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America
(BCIA) as it demonstrates a far greater depth of knowledge and covers a broader spectrum
of behavioral interventions than only biofeedback. This is an academic certificate of
knowledge rather than a clinical practice certification such as BCIA’s biofeedback
certification.

The courses which need to be taken for the certificate are: (1) Biological basis of behavior

(Introduction to psychophysiology), (2) General biofeedback (psychophysiological
assessment and intervention), (3) Anatomy and physiology for behavioral clinicians, (4)
Hands-on training in basic psychophysiological instrumentation, (5) Individual training
experience in biofeedback, and (6) either (a) Pain assessment and intervention or (b)
Assessment and Treatment of Pelvic Floor Disorders. Clinicians who have already taken an
equivalent course to any of the above may substitute one of the Foundation’s other courses
for the one already taken. People wanting to take the certificate must be appropriately
trained and credentialed clinicians. The certificate is not granted until the student also attains
a minimum of 12 contact hours of mentored, hands on behavioral interventions with patients
in specific categories depending on which courses are taken. The mentor must be physically
present for all 12 hours. This training need not be provided by the Foundation’s staff but the
trainer must have credentials and experience acceptable to the Foundation.

Students participating in the certificate program receive the last course free as an incentive to

complete the program.