Peper / Williams From the Inside Out

A Self-Teaching and Laboratory Manual for Biofeedback
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4684-1060-0
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 446 Seiten, eBook

You have just received your new biofeedback device with its instruction manual. You ask yourself: How can I personally use the equipment to encourage my self-growth? How can I help my patient to relax his spastic colon? How best can I use the equipment with my client who has chronic anxiety? How can I use this equipment in my research examining the correlation between location of muscle contraction and specific emotions? What is the best way to teach my students an understanding of the basis of the signal and the problem of artifacts? Should I have purchased this device or would I have been better off with another type of biofeedback equipment? How can I integrate the use of this device and other biofeedback equipment with such techniques of unstressing as progressive relaxation and meditation? Can I harm myself or others, either physically or emotionally, with the equipment? Where can I look for additional information regarding the use of biofeedback equipment? These questions and others have been raised over and over in our teaching of biofeedback to both students and professionals. This manual has been structured so as to provide both background information and experiences that will allow the user to answer these questions. The manual is based on the premise that the only way to really learn (' 'know' ') about biofeedback is through self-experience.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peper, Erik

Williams, E.A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Instruction Set A Guidelines for Learning Unstressing and an Introduction to Modified Progressive Relaxation.- Section 1 Electromyograph.- Lab I Understanding Biofeedback Equipment and an Introduction to the Electrornyograph.- Lab II Location of Muscle Tension.- Lab III Experience of Imagined Stressor.- Lab IV Experience of Imagined Stressor with Feedback.- Lab V Home Practice: Awareness of Thought Patterns and Muscle Tension.- Lab VI Dysponesis.- Lab VII Home Practice: Dysponesis.- Instruction Set B Meditative Unstressing Techniques.- Section 2 Temperature Unit.- Lab VIII Introduction to the Temperature Unit.- Lab IX Techniques of Learning Temperature Change.- Lab X Home Practice: Learning Temperature Awareness.- Lab XI Home Practice: Learning Intervention.- Section 3 Electrodermograph.- Lab XII Introduction to the Electrodermograph.- Lab XIII Systematic Desensitization.- Lab XIV Home Practice: Densensitization.- Section 4 Electroencephalograph.- Lab XV Introduction to the Electroencephalograph.- Lab XVI Home Practice: Theta.- Instruction Set C Long-Term Biofeedback Training.- Section 5 Generalized Use of Biofeedback.- Economical Biofeedback.- Home Practice: Language Use.- Home Practice: Breath Awareness.- Physiological Effects of Some Common Activities.- How Do You Respond to Stress?.- Appendices.- Appendix A Introduction to Electricity.- Appendix B Graphing Your Data.- Appendix C Using the Sphygmomanometer.- Appendix D Equipment Problem Solving.- Appendix E Biofeedback Resources.- Appendix F Biofeedback Equipment and Supplies.- Appendix G Glossary.