Biofeedback: A Practitioner's Guide - Hardcover

Schwartz PhD, Mark S.; Schwartz, Mark S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898626811 ISBN 13: 9780898626810

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Schwartz PhD, Mark S., Schwartz, Mark S.

About this title

About the Author:

Mark S. Schwartz, PhD, began using biofeedback at the Mayo Clinic in 1974. He chaired the Professional Affairs Committee of the Biofeedback Society of America (BSA) during the period in which it developed the first Applications Standards and Guidelines for Biofeedback, published in 1982, and later served as President of the BSA. He also chaired the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA) for several years. Dr. Schwartz was on the staff of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota from 1967 to 1988, when he moved to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Currently, he is on the Mayo Clinic Emeritus Staff; has a private practice in Jacksonville, Florida; and is Adjunct Professor at the University of North Florida. He is a Senior Fellow of the BCIA.

Frank Andrasik, PhD, is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and Professor of Psychology at the University of West Florida. He began his professional career in the Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Andrasik is past president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the association's journal, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. He is a recipient of the AAPB's Merit Award for Long-Term Research and/or Clinical Achievements and the AAPB's Distinguished Scientist Award, and is a Senior Fellow of the BCIA.

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Contents
I. History, Entering, and Definitions
1. A Historical Perspective on the Field of Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology
Mark S. Schwartz and R. Paul Olson
2. Entering the Field and Assuring Competence
Mark S. Schwartz and Doil D. Montgomery
3. Definitions of Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology
Nancy M. Schwartz and Mark S. Schwartz
II. Instrumentation
4. A Primer of Biofeedback Instrumentation
Charles J. Peek
5. A Primer of Electroencephalographic Instrumentation
Nicola Neumann, Ute Strehl, and Niels Birbaumer
III. Office Assessment and Compliance
6. Intake Decisions and Preparation of Patients for Therapy
Mark S. Schwartz
7. Psychophysiological Assessment and Biofeedback Baselines: A Primer
John G. Arena and Mark S. Schwartz
8. Compliance
Mark S. Schwartz
IV. Cultivating Lower Arousal
9. Dietary Considerations: Rationale, Issues, Substances, Evaluation, and Patient
Education
Keith I. Block, Mark S. Schwartz, and Charlotte Gyllenhaal
10. The Respiratory System in Applied Psychophysiology
Richard N. Gevirtz and Mark S. Schwartz
11. Resonant Frequency Heart Rate Biofeedback
Richard N. Gevirtz and Paul Lehrer
12. Problems with Relaxation and Biofeedback-Assisted Relaxation, and
Guidelines for Management
Mark S. Schwartz, Nancy M. Schwartz, and Vincent J. Monastra
13. The Use of Audiotapes for Patient Education and Relaxation
Mark S. Schwartz
V. Disorders Needing Lower Tension and Arousal
14. Headache
Mark S. Schwartz and Frank Andrasik
15. Temporomandibular Disorders
Alan G. Glaros and Leonard Lausten
16. Raynaud's Disease and Raynaud's Phenomenon
Mark S. Schwartz and Keith Sedlacek
17. Biobehavioral Treatment of Essential Hypertension
Angele McGrady and Wolfgang Linden
VI. Electroencephalographic Biofeedback Applications
18. Neurofeedback for the Management of Attention Deficit Disorders
Joel F. Lubar
19. Clinical Applications of Electroencephalographic Biofeedback
Vincent J. Monastra
20. Biofeedback of Slow Cortical Potentials in Epilepsy
Ute Strehl
21. The Thought Translation Device: Slow Cortical Potential Biofeedback
for Verbal Communication in Paralyzed Patients
Andrea Kubler, Susanne Winter, and Niels Birbaumer
VII. Neuromuscular Applications
22. Biofeedback in Neuromuscular Reeducation and Gait Training
David E. Krebs and Timothy L. Fagerson
23. Biofeedback-Assisted Musculoskeletal Therapy and Neuromuscular
Reeducation
Eric R. Fogel
24. Psychophysiology for Performing Artists
Marcie Zinn and Mark Zinn
25. Sport Psychology Applications of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback
Wesley Sime
VIII. Elimination Disorders
26. Urinary Incontinence: Evaluation and Biofeedback Treatment
Jeannette Tries and Eugene Eisman
27. Fecal Incontinence
Jeannette Tries and Eugene Eisman
28. The Use of Biofeedback for Pelvic Floor Disorders Associated with a
Failure to Relax
Jeannette Tries and Eugene Eisman
29. Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Mark S. Schwartz and Sami R. Achem
IX. Pediatric Applications
30. Pediatric Headache
Frank Andrasik and Mark S. Schwartz
31. Pediatric Applications Other Than Headache
Timothy P. Culbert and Gerard A. Banez
X. Other Applications
32. Diabetes Mellitus
Angele McGrady and Barbara Bailey
33. Tinnitus: Nothing Is as Loud as a Sound You Are Trying Not to Hear
Herta Flor and Mark S. Schwartz
34. Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Mark S. Schwartz and Jeffrey M. Thompson
35. Treating Special Populations
Mark S. Schwartz and Frank Andrasik
XI. Professional Issues
36. The Application of Ethics and Law in Daily Practice
Sebastian Striefel
37. Other Professional Topics and Issues
Sebastian Striefel, Robert Whitehouse, and Mark S. Schwartz
38. Evaluating Research in Clinical Biofeedback
Mark S. Schwartz and Frank Andrasik
XII. Frontier
39. The Frontier and Further Forward
Mark S. Schwartz and Frank Andrasik
Index

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0898626811
• ISBN 13: 9780898626810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 518