Behav Med Foundation – Heart-Rate Variability Home Study Course

Behav Med Foundation – Heart-Rate Variability Home Study Course

At home learning format based on audiovisual lectures, readings, and both live and email interactions with the instructor. You can start anytime up to three months after purchasing the course and can work with the instructor for up to one year after the purchase date when the course expires. This course meets the requirements for BCIA’s certificate in heart rate variability (HRV). It emphasizes methods for evaluation and modification of autonomic quieting through heart rate variability training. Topics covered include (1) Cardiac anatomy and physiology, (2) Respiratory anatomy and physiology, (3) Autonomic nervous system anatomy and physiology, and (4) Heart rate variability psychophysiology, instrumentation, measurement, biofeedback strategies and applications.

You will learn by watching audiovisual lectures provided on the course web, reading assignments both from materials provided on the course web site, watching a movie, and interacting extensively with the instructor via e-mail and, if you wish, by phone. You will answer short essay questions rather than taking exams. Previous students have required between 20 and 35 hours of work to complete this course. There are no prerequisites for this course but having previously taken a course in anatomy and physiology makes the material in this course easier to understand and relate to the rest of the body’s functions.

Specific Course Objectives: As a result of taking this course, you should be able to:     

1. Have knowledge of each topic (listed below) required to earn the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance’s (BCIA’s) certificate in Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback.
2.  Understand how basic cardiac anatomy and physiology (A&P) relate to HRV.
3. Be able to determine your own resonance frequency and calculate it for others.
4. Have sufficient knowledge of respiratory A&P to relate it to HEV.
5. Understand how the autonomic nervous system’s A&P cause changes in organ system functioning.
6. Be able to use standard biofeedback instruments to measure, assess, and feedback HRV.
7. Be able to train people to change their HRV through biofeedback.

Format:

Home study supported by e-mail chats after each unit is completed. The course is divided into a series of units based on organ systems. You will progress through each unit by watching an introductory audiovisual lecture on the course web site about an organ system followed by reading one or more chapters in the required book, text files on the course web site and, if you are using one or more of them, possibly in one of the optional books. After watching the lecture and reading the assigned material, you will answer a brief series of questions located in the review question file on the course web site. The answered questions are then e-mailed to the instructor. You and the instructor will discuss each unit via e-mail or phone after your answers are assessed. You do not have to wait for the discussion to proceed to the succeeding lecture & chapters. You are more than welcome to spend extra

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