Biofeedback: A Practitioner's Guide

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• About the Editors iii
• Contributors iv
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments viii
• Contents xi
• Part I: History, Entering, and Definitions 1
• Chapter 1: A Historical Perspective on the Field of Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology 3
• Chapter 2: Entering the Field and Assuring Competence 20
• Chapter 3: Definitions1 of Biofeedback and Applied Psychophysiology 27
• Part II: Instrumentation 41
• Chapter 4: A Primer of Biofeedback Instrumentation 43
• Chapter 5: Primer of Electroencephalographic Instrumentation 88
• Part III: Office Assessment and Compliance 103
• Chapter 6: Intake Decisions and Preparation of Patients for Therapy 105
• Chapter 7: Psychophysiological Assessment and Biofeedback Baselines a Primer 128
• Chapter 8: Compliance 159
• Part IV: Cultivating Lower Arousal 179
• Chapter 9: Dietary Considerations - Rationale, Issues, Substances, Evaluation, and Patient Education 181
• Chapter 10: The Respiratory System in Applied Psychophysiology 212
• Chapter 11: Resonant Frequency Heart Rate Biofeedback 245
• Chapter 12: Problems with Relaxation and Biofeedback-Assisted Relaxation, and Guidelines for Management 251
• Chapter 13: The Use of Audiotapes for Patient Education and Relaxation 265
• Part V: Disorders Needing Lower Tension and Arousal 273
• Chapter 14: Headache 275
• Chapter 15: Temporomandibular Disorders 349
• Chapter 16: Raynaud's Disease and Raynaud's Phenomenon 369
• Chapter 17: Biobehavioral Treatment of Essential Hypertension 382
• Part VI: Electroencephalographic Biofeedback Applications 407
• Chapter 18: Neurofeedback for the Management of Attention Deficit Disorders 409
• Chapter 19: Clinical Applications of Electroencephalographic Biofeedback 438
• Chapter 20: Biofeedback of Slow Cortical Potentials in Epilepsy 464
• Chapter 21: The Thought Translation Device - Slow Cortical Potential Biofeedback for Verbal Communication in Paralyzed Patients 471
• Part VII: Neuromuscular Applications 483
• Chapter 22: Biofeedback in Neuromuscular Reeducation and Gait Training 485
• Chapter 23: Biofeedback-Assisted Musculoskeletal Therapy and Neuromuscular Reeducation 515
• Chapter 24: Psychophysiology for Performing Artists 545
• Chapter 25: Sports Psychology Applications of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback 560
• Part VIII: Elimination Disorders 589
• Chapter 26: Urinary Incontinence - Evaluation and Biofeedback Treatment 591
• Chapter 27: Fecal Incontinence 622
• Chapter 28: The Use of Biofeedback for Pelvic Floor Disorders Associated with a Failure to Relax 646
• Chapter 29: Irritable Bowel Syndrome 658
• Part IX: Pediatric Applications 685
• Chapter 30: Pediatric Headache 687
• Chapter 31: Pediatric Applications Other Than Headache 696
• Part X: Other Applications 725
• Chapter 32: Diabetes Mellitus 727
• Chapter 33: Tinnitus - Nothing is as Loud as a Sound You Are Trying Not to Hear 750
• Chapter 34: Fibromyalgia Syndrome 776
• Chapter 35: Treating Special Populations 795
• Part XI: Professional Issues 811
• Chapter 36: The Application of Ethics and Law in Daily Practice 1 813
• Chapter 37: Other Professional Topics and Issues 1 835
• Chapter 38: Evaluating Research in Clinical Biofeedback 867
• Part XII: Frontier 881
• Chapter 39: The Frontier and Further Forward 883
• Index 918

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