Biofeedback Certification Institute of America Goes Global

Biofeedback ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 123-125
Author(s):  
Fred Shaffer ◽  
Judy Crawford

Abstract As biofeedback and neurofeedback achieve greater worldwide recognition, there is increased demand for international education and training standards. This article discusses the promise of international biofeedback and neurofeedback, challenges to the growth of international certification, and the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America initiatives to eliminate the obstacles to both U.S. and international certification.

Biofeedback ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Shaffer ◽  
Judy Crawford ◽  
Donald Moss

The Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) has developed a certificate of completion program to establish education and training standards for the exciting modality of heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback. HRV represents the beat-to-beat changes in the intervals between consecutive heartbeats. A growing list of HRV biofeedback applications has earned ratings from possibly efficacious to probably efficacious. BCIA's expert-designed Blueprint of Knowledge and exam promise to increase the academic rigor of didactic HRV biofeedback courses and enhance the knowledge of providers who incorporate this modality into their practice.


2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C Roberts ◽  
Rebecca M Kanine ◽  
Christina M Amaro ◽  
Spencer C Evans ◽  
Jennifer B Blossom ◽  
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Biofeedback ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 87-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Shaffer ◽  
Judy Crawford

The Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) certifies individuals who meet education and training standards in biofeedback and progressively recertifies those who advance their knowledge through continuing education. Increased national and international interest in our field has been accompanied by closer scrutiny of clinical efficacy and professional conduct. BCIA has expanded its international outreach in order to raise the standards of biofeedback and neurofeedback education and practice throughout the world. This article answers frequent questions about the growth of international certification, continuing education, ethics, and marketing your practice.


Author(s):  
Fitri Kurnianingsih ◽  
Adi Gunawan Sofwan ◽  
Mahadiansar Mahadiansar

LSP Lemdiklat Polri has a very strategic role in structuring the management of human resources of the apparatus, especially in ensuring and maintaining the competence of Polri's human resources and other police functions. However, the current organizational structure and work procedures of the National Police Institute of Education and Training are still not in accordance with the workload that must be carried out. Organizational structures are generally an integral part of carrying out their functions and tasks in a structured manner in order to play a role in realizing the vision and mission of the organization itself. Focus and research locus on the analysis of the organizational structure design of the Professional Certification Institute for Education and Training of the Indonesian National Police (LSP LEMDIKLAT POLRI), As for the research method used using literature study based on existing secondary data. The results show that the ideal design of the organizational structure consisting of complexity and centralization and formalization in general, the respondents have a concern for the activities of the LSP LEMDIKLAT POLRI in their environment. The researcher also gives the first conclusion that the LSP LEMDIKLAT POLRI requires improvement in terms of departmentalization and specialization to improve the quality of POLRI personnel, secondly to strengthen regulations and rules as a form of control to ensure and maintain competence in certification services for non-INP police function bearers.


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Merrill Herman ◽  
Stuart Gitlow ◽  
Gabrielle Katrine Welle-Strand ◽  
Mark E Montebello ◽  
Cor de Jong

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