Summary
This is an experiential laboratory manual for training educators, clinicians and students in the basics of biofeedback...an indispensible resource for learning the fundamentals of biofeedback. This book teaches basic skills derived from more than 30 years of biofeedback, an indispensable resource for learning the fundamentals of all the major biofeedback modalities.
This book teaches basic skills derived from more than 30 years of biofeedback training and teaching experience:
- Making sense of the data
- Monitoring and displaying biological signals
- Exploring the underlying physiology of signals
- Accurately recording the signal
- The basics of self-regulation
- Limitations of psychophysiogical monitoring
- Techniques for connecting and applying sensors
- Discriminating real feedback from artifact
About the Author
Erik Peper, PhD, is an international authority on biofeedback and self-regulation. He is Professor at the Institute for Holistic Healing Studies/Department of Health Education at San Francisco State University. He is President of the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe and past president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He holds Senior Fellow biofeedback certification status from the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. He received the 2004 California Governor's Safety Award for his work on healthy computing. He is an author of numerous scientific articles and books. His most recent co-authored books are Muscle Biofeedback at the Computer, Make Health Happen:Teaching Yourself to Create Wellness, and DeComputermens. He also co-produces the weekly Healthy Computing e-mail Tips. His research interests focus on psychophysiology of healing, illness prevention, voluntary self-regulation, holistic health, health at the worksite, and respiratory psychophysiology.
