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2009 Conference
The 2009 conference will be at the Crowne Plaza in Irvine. Dates and details to follow.

2009 Southern California Regional Meeting
Mending the Mind / Minding the Body
June 27 9:00-5:30
Information HERE

Member Benefits
Not a member? Look at these benefits and become a member today!

  • Discounts on registrations for the annual conference and regional meetings
  • Subscription to California Biofeedback
  • Administration of CEs for your workshops
  • Stipends available for published articles in the newsletter
  • Networking with Calfornia practitioners on the BSC list serve

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Our Mission

What is Applied Psychophysiology (Biofeedback)?

Message from Cynthia Kerson, 2009 President-elect

Worker's Compensation Update

 
   


 

Where can you get enlightened, have lunch and get 6 CE hours for $60.00?
The Santa Clarita Valley Psychotherapeutic Network
The Biofeedback Society of California
&
The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals Los Angeles
invite and encourage BSC members to attend the upcoming event:
Mending the Mind, Minding the Body:
A One-Day Conference Exploring Innovative Approaches to Treatment
Saturday, June 27, 2009 | 9:00 to 5:30pm
at the Hyatt Valencia 24500 Town Center Drive Valencia, California 91355
Network Reception Following
6 CE hours available for PhD, PsyD, MFT, LCSW, RD, CADAC
$60 (includes luncheon) 
The BSC is proud that members
Meg MacDonald, MD and Cynthia Kerson, PhD
will be presenting the following for the Biofeedback Track:
 Integrating Heart Rate Variability and Neurofeedback for Optimal Meditation Training
- Cynthia Kerson, PhD
Physiological Stress Evaluation: What the Self-Report May Not Tell You
- Margaret MacDonald, MD
BSC member and past President Steve Kassel, MFT will be presenting
Interpersonal Biofeedback on a Keynote Panel on Couples Therapy.
Click here to view the program. 

Course Abstracts HERE

Contact Christina Weiss at 562-457-7373 or
christina.weiss@centerfordiscovery.com for Registration Information.

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NurseBSC is the oldest guild in biofeedback. BSC is more than an 'organization.' We are a group of professionals joined together by a common bond to promote, advance and protect biofeedback skills. BSC is a friendly place for beginning and established health providers to find out about the latest scientific discoveries in bio-tecnology. We are most interested in how bio-technology can apply to meaningful self-regulation skills for the advancement of health and well-being. We also advocate for a legitimate place in our health care system. Our members share a deeper appreciation of man's abilities to listen to and change subtle brain and body processes. Please join us at Asilomar.

-Robert Grove, PhD 3X Past-President  



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Our Mission

The Biofeedback Society of California was founded in 1974 and is the oldest and largest state biofeedback society. It is a multi-professional association of clinicians, researchers and educators who share an interest in the use of biofeedback techniques in pursuing health and human potential. The society is concerned with competency and the quest for knowledge regarding treatment procedures which maximize physiological self-regulation. It is an open forum for the exchange of ideas, methods, clinical experience, and results of biofeedback and applied psychophysiology and related disciplines. Members are committed to maintaining high standards of professionalism and to educating both the general public and other health care professionals about biofeedback.

The Society was the first biofeedback organization to offer professional certification.

The emphasis of the Society is on clinical application and scientific research and provides local networking, educational meetings and referral services. Specifically the main objectives are to: 

1) advance biofeedback and applied psychophysiology in educational, scientific, clinical and personal growth areas of development, 
2) educate professionals and the public, 
3) develop and maintain practice standards and ethics, 
4) provide criteria concerning who may apply biofeedback and under what circumstances, 
5) provide peer review, and 
6) provide standards for the evaluation and certification of individuals engaged in the application of biofeedback.

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 What is Applied Psychophysiology (Biofeedback)?

BrainBiofeedback is the process of obtaining information about psychophysiological or mind-body interactions and feeding it back for training.  These interactions are measured via heart rate, breathing, CO2 breath measurement, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, muscles tension and brain wave activity.  Information is received by noninvasive surface electrodes (sensors) and electronically amplified to provide feedback, usually in the form of an audio tone and/or visual feedback.   Biofeedback uses the information that has been monitored from the sensors to help train the client to learn how to make voluntary changes in those biological functions and enhance self-regulation. This training helps to increase the clients awareness first of their body and second, of the mind-body connection. For example, pain, stress and anxiety management increases as self-regulation skills are learned and then applied to daily life. Look HERE for a description of biofeedback modalities.

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Dear BSC Members,

The above definition of Applied Physiology was created by the BSC. However, the Biofeedback Neurofeedback Alliance (the AAPB, ISNR and BCIA) has recently prepared a formal, official definition of Biofeedback. They urge everyone who is practicing biofeedback to include it on his or her Web site, in promotional materials and within communications with other practitioners and clients/patients. The definition is as follows:

Biofeedback is a process that enables an individual to learn how to change physiological activity for the purposes of improving health and performance. Precise instruments measure physiological activity such as brainwaves, heart function, breathing, muscle activity, and skin temperature. These instruments rapidly and accurately "feed back" information to the user. The presentation of this information; often in conjunction with changes in thinking, emotions, and behavior, supports desired physiological changes. Over time, these changes can endure without continued use of an instrument.

Cynthia Kerson, PhD
BSC 2009 President-elect

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      Worker's Compensation rulings for 2005 have proven a challenge for the many bio- and neurotherapists in California. For the latest submission (January 2007) from our BSC subcommittee to Sacramento click HERE.

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