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FRIDAY, November 8, 1996

7:00 am REGISTRATION OPENS 8:00 am-6:00 pm BCIA Written Exam 8:00 am-9:50 am SHORT COURSES 1-3: Erik Peper, PhD: Effortless Breathing, Part I Joan Coxe, RN: It's Never Too Late to Self-Regulate Cathy Holt, MPH: Creating Wholeness: Empowerment for Self Healing 10:00 am-11:50am SHORT COURSES 4-6 Erik Peper, PhD: Effortless Breathing, Part II Suzanna Smart, RN: Introduction to Rosen Method Body Work Stephen Francis, Phd: Pediatric Applications for Biofeedback 12:00 pm EXHIBITS OPEN AND SILENT AUCTION 12:00 pm-4:00 pm BSC Board Meeting 2:00 pm-3:50 pm SHORT COURSES 7-9 Lyn Ochs, PhD: EEG Driven Stimulation David Mars, PhD: Part I: Model of Biofeedback for Corporations Wayne Henkleman, MS, MFCC: Stress Management(Biofeedback & the Chronically Mentally Ill 4:00 pm-5:50 pm SHORT COURSES 10-12 LaWana Heald, BS: Myofascial Pain Protocol David Mars, PhD: Part II: Breath Training Capnography Ira Rosenberg, MA: Home Training, The Crucial Link 7:00 pm GENERAL SESSION Welcome: Gary Godshall, MS, BSC President ENRICHMENT SPEAKER: Marion Diamond, PhD Title: Enrichment and the Cerebral Cortex: A Review and What's New 8:30 pm RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT ("Rebecca and the Pair a' docs",' AKA, Rebecca Tiep, Dr. Brian Tiep and Dr. Jorge Alaniz)

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SATURDAY, November 9,1996

7:00 am REGISTRATION OPENS 8:00 am Exhibits open; silent auction continues. 8:00 am-9:30 am PANEL 1 Challenges of Clinical Biofeedback with Special Populations Chair: Cathy Holt — Participants: William Barton, PhD: Biofeedback with Children and Adolescents Kathy Bender: Working with Worker Comp Patients Natalie Olson, MFCC: Biofeedback with Culturally Diverse Patients 9:30 am-11:30 am PANEL 2 The Future of EEG Biofeedback, A Colloquium: Chair: Barry Sterman, PhD — Participants: Joe Kamiya PhD, Thomas Mulholland, PhD, Michael Linden, PhD, Sigfried Othmer, PhD. (A series of questions will be addressed by the participants.) 11:30 am-l2:00 pm Exhibits break, silent auction continues 12:00 pm-l:00 pm INVITED SPEAKER: Robert Sapolsky, PhD Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers 1:00 pm-3:00 pm BSC ANNUAL LUNCHEON PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Gary Godshall, MS, BSC President: Transformational Effect of Innerfeedback 3:00 pm-3:30 pm Exhibits break, final chance at silent auction 3:30 pm-5:00 pm PANEL 3— BSC and the Internet Chair: Jack Sandweiss, MA: An Introduction to the Internet Gary Godshall, MS: Our State Society on the Internet Bill Coby, PhD: Biofeedback Resources in Cyberspace 5:30 pm-6:30 pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER Thomas Mulholland, PhD Behavioral Stillness: A Therapeutic Context for Biofeedback 6:30 pm ANNOUNCEMENT OF SILENT AUCTION WINNERS

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SUNDAY, November 10, 1996

7:15 am REGISTRATION OPENS 7:30 am-9:20 am SHORT COURSES 13-15. David Bezanson, PhD: Biofeedback and Meditation, Part I LaWana Heald, BS: Reimbursement in the 90's Susanna Smart, RN, BS: Working with Fibromyalgia in Clinical Practice 8:00 am Exhibits open 9:30 am-11 :30 am PANEL 4 Stress Management and Biofeedback in Education Chair: Erik Peper, PhD — Participants: Betsy Stetson, RN: Nursing students as innovators: Teaching patients holistic health and stress reducing strategies. Natalie Olson, MFCC: A summary of Ian Wickram's work using biofeedback/stress management in teaching applied psychophysiology to Family Practice medical students; Marketing biofeedback to Family Practice Residents. 11:30 am-12:30 pm LUNCH BREAK RESEARCH HEADLINE David Mars, PhD Frontiers in Biofeedback Capnography: From Panic and Functional Cardiac Disorders to Transactional Psychophysiology l:30 pm-2:00 pm FINAL EXHIBITS BREAK 2:00 pm-3:50 pm SHORT COURSES 16-18. David Bezanson, PhD: Biofeedback and Meditation, Part II Shirley May, RN, BSN: Biofeedback and the Treatment of Craniofascial Pain and TMJ Jack Sandweiss, MA, MFCC: Diagnosis and Medical Treatment of Headaches 4:00 pm-5:50 pm SHORT COURSES 19-21. Eleanor Criswell, EdD: Somatic Perceptions, Somatic Disclosure Nick Pappas, MD: Psychiatric Medications: Side Effects & Biofeedback Effects Stephen Francis, PhD: A Comprehensive Approach to Chronic Pain 7:00 pm REGISTRATION CLOSES

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Short Course #1
Effortless Breathing, Part I
Erik Peper, PhD

All health professionals who are interested in learning to 
reduce the effort of breathing in people with chronic pain, 
chronic fatigue, anxiety, asthma and those who want to 
achieve optimum perfor-mance. Especially appropriate for 
practitioners who have a behavioral medicine/biofeedback 
based practice. Part I will provide an overview of dys-
functional respiratory psychophysiology within a systems 
perspective. Experiential demonstration and self-
observations of breathing styles.
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Short Course #2
It's Never Too Late to Self-Regulate
Joan Coxe, RN, BSN

As the U.S. average age rises, biofeedback therapists can 
expect to see older adults seeking behavioral therapy for 
functional disorders. This course provides an overview of 
some common chronic conditions of aging as well as age-
related changes in memory and intelligence. We'll explore 
strategies to maximize learning for biofeedback therapy 
with an older population.
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Short Course #3
Creating Wholeness: Empowerment for Self 
Healing
Catherine HoIt, MPH

By focusing on wholeness rather than illness, and teaching 
self-regulation skills, we can create a climate of healing in 
which each person can cultivate his or her unique self-
healing abilities. This course presents methods for teaching 
relaxation, diaphrag-matic breathing, and hand-warming; 
empowering ways to revise cognitive patterns; and imagery 
for healing.
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Short Course #4
Effortless Breathing, Part II
Erik Peper, PhD

Overviews specific biofeedback and tactile strategies to 
teach effortless breathing to clients. Includes tactile and 
posture demonstrations, incentive inspirometry feedback, 
symptom prescription, SCL and EMG feedback training, 
desensitization and generalization training.
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Short Course #5
Introduction to Rosen Method Body Work
Susanna Smart, RN, BSN

This gentle and profound hands-on method offers 
"feedback" (through touch and words) to facilitate 
awareness and relaxation. As habitual muscle holding is 
contracted, insights and memories may arise. With 
compassionate curiosity and acceptance of "what is", 
practitioner and client together explore the release of old 
tension patterns, and the possibility of greater ease. (Note: 
This course not taped.)
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Short Course #6
Pediatric Applications of Biofeedback
Stephen Francis, MA

This course will enable the biofeedback practitioner to 
expand his/her practice to include working with children 
and adolescents. Areas covered will include instrument 
selection, use of ancillary behavioral techniques and 
networking with the medical community for appropriate 
referrals. This area of biofeedback is largely ignored and 
untapped.
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Short Course #7
EEG Driven Stimulation
Lyn Ochs, PhD

EEG-Driven Stimulation is a non-cognitive neuro-therapy 
in the domain of evoked, rather than spon-taneous EEG. 
The dimly-flashing LED feedback automatically flattens the 
amplitude and standard deviation of the EEG across the 
spectrum, and as it does, behavioral deficits are reduced, 
automatically correcting mood, cognitive, energy, and 
movement problems.
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Short Course #8
Bridging to Corporations with Biofeedback:
Stress Relaxation Training
David Mars, PhD

Methods will be presented for successfully obtaining 
corporate biofeedback training contracts, conducting needs 
assessment and designing biofeedback training programs 
for the work place. Stages of training, systems to 
communicate concepts, and ways to motivate participants 
will be given. The methods presented are also highly useful 
in clinical and community settings.
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Short Course #9
Stress Management/Biofeedback & the Chronically Mentally Ill
Wayne Henkelmann, MS, MFCC

Disagreement exists as to the appropriateness and/or 
effectiveness of biofeedback and other stress management 
learning modalities in treating individuals with chronic 
mental illness. A significant anecdotal and published 
literature base exists to suggest that stress and limited self 
regulation skills plays a part in the relapse, severity of 
illness symptoms and initial onset of illness. This course 
will provide both an overview of chronic mental illnesses 
and the considerations in working with clients experiencing 
these disorders, as well as existing protocols/practices 
integrating biofeedback and other self regulation strategies 
in the thera-peutic treatment process of these disorders.
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Short Course #10
Myofascial Pain Protocol
LaWana Heald, BS CBT

This is a protocol for treating Myofascial Pain Syndrome 
incorporating techniques for recognizing and treating 
asymmetrical patterns. It includes a protocol for EMG 
evaluation and treatment which can be incorporated into 
the standard 1 hour biofeedback session.
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Short Course #11
Breath Training Capnography
David Mars, PhD

The capnometer is a biofeedback device that measures 
carbon dioxide in the breath. Capnometers will be provided 
so that participants can have direct experience with 
"shaping blood chemistry through the breath". The learning 
will be valuable for treating panic, anxiety, and functional 
cardiac disorders, hyperventilation and stress management.
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Short Course #12
Home Training, the Crucial Link
Ira Rosenberg, PhD

In this course special exercises that have been developed 
over the last twelve years will be shared along with the 
underlying theory, and how to deal with special problems 
that come up in clients' home practices, including 
noncompliance, fear of relaxation, blanking out at specific 
points in the exercise routines, how and when to change the 
exercises.
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Short Course #13
Biofeedback and Meditation, Part I
David Bezanson, PhD

Learn effects, side effects, indications, contraindica-tions, 
lifestyle impediments and facilitators and applications to 
stressors, physiologic disorders and problem solving. Learn 
an array of meditation forms via group practice, ways of 
integrating meditation with biofeedback and objective 
methods (including biofeedback) of selecting optimal 
meditation forms for yourself and your clients. Learn to use 
Medita-tion Quotient Questionnaire. Literature will be 
critically reviewed.
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Short Course #14
Reimbursement in the 90's: The Importance of
Correct Coding
LaWana Heald, BS, CBT

This presentation will focus on reimbursement issues facing 
biofeedback therapists and other health care providers. The 
importance of ICD 9 CM and CPT 4 coding will be 
emphasized. A brief overview covers how to use the code 
books and why coding is here to stay and why; without 
adequate coding the provider loses money.
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Short Course #15
Working with Fibromyalgia in Clinical Practice
Susanna Smart, RN, BSN

Susanna will present on her clinical work with people with 
fibromyalgia within an interdisciplinary outpatient clinic. 
In this didactic and experiential presentation, she will share 
how biofeedback, imagery/hypnosis and Rosen Method 
Bodywork can be used to enhance fibromyalgia symptom 
management.
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Short Course #16
Biofeedback and Meditation, Part II
David Bezanson, PhD

See Short Course #13 for description.
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Short Course #17
Biofeedback & the Treatment of Craniofascial Pain
Shirley May, BSN

Craniomandibular disorders rarely occur as single entities, 
but rather as part of a number of problems with overlapping 
symptoms. The multi-nature of these problems demand an 
interrelated diagnosis and multidisciplinary approach to 
their management. This course will provide a basic 
understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the TM 
joint. The awareness model will be used as the framework 
for understanding the biofeedback treatment components, 
such as patient assessment, education, treatment, and 
integration of skills into daily life. Biofeedback will be 
presented as one of the treatment modalities in a team 
approach to treating temporomandibular dysfunction.
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Short Course #18
Diagnosis and Medical Treatment of Headaches!
Jack Sandweiss, MA, MFCC

Update on Lidocaine/Migraine research. Under-stand the 
latest theories of Migraine, Tension and Cluster headache. 
Learn about new pharmacological approaches to treatment, 
and, medications on the horizon. Learn how to take a 
comprehensive headache history and how headaches are 
diagnosed and treated in a medical headache clinic. Role of 
biofeedback in a headache treatment plan.
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Short Course #19
Somatic Perceptions, Somatic Disclosure
Eleanor Crisweil-Hanna, EdD

Somatics is a term coined by Thomas Hanna for the 
mind/body integration field. Hanna Somatics refers to 
Hanna Somatic Education (the hands-on work) and the 
Somatic Exercises--precisely programmed movement 
patterns to stimulate the brain's release of muscular 
tightness and pain. These exercises are a highly effective 
way to awaken and reawaken the mind's control of 
movement, flexibility and health. They are valuable 
adjunctive techniques for biofeedback training. Principles 
of Hanna Somatics also aid in assessment of presenting 
complaints.
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Short Course #20
Psychiatric Medications: Effects, Side Effects and
Biofeedback Effects
Nick Pappas, MD.

Frequently clients who present for biofeedback therapy are 
taking some form of psychoactive medications. It is 
imperative for the therapist to be aware of the therapeutic 
effects and side effects, and how these medications may 
interact with the biofeedback process. This presentation 
will discuss various classes of psychoactive medications, 
such as antipsychotics, tranquilizers, and antidepressants, 
their effects, side effects and known interactions with 
biofeedback.
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Short Course #21
A Comprehensive Approach to Chronic Pain
Stephen Francis, MA

Biofeedback has proven efficacious in the treatment of 
many kinds of chronic pain conditions. In this course the 
participant will gain an understanding of the physiology of 
different pain conditions and rationales for which type of 
biofeedback to use in treatment. Emphasis will also be 
given to interaction with primary referral sources and a 
rationale for making referrals to other complementary or 
alternative medical services. The course will utilize 
research conducted at a university-based pain facility over 
the last five years.

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