Biofeedback Volume 47: Issue 1

This article provides readers with a guide for evaluating physiological readings during biofeedback assessment and treatment, with the goal of facilitating treatment planning and tracking of treatment progress and outcomes. The author reviews expected values for measurements of breathing, heart rate, heart rate variability, peripheral temperature, and skin conductance.

Professionals can monitor respiration using six biofeedback modalities: strain gauges, surface electromyography, capnometers, oximeters, inspirometers, and feedback thermometers. This article emphasizes the importance of the breathing rhythm, describes how to effectively use each modality, and explains how to minimize contamination by artifacts that masquerade as respiratory activity.

Hagedorn (2014) has highlighted the infection risks in biofeedback and neurofeedback practice and identified broad strategies for mitigating infection risk. In the age of Clostridum difficile, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and human immunodeficiency virus, infection risk cannot be ignored in any health discipline that attaches sensors to patients' skin in most treatments. The present article discusses specific guidelines for care and hygiene of biofeedback and neurofeedback instruments, encoders, cables, and sensors. Attention to practice standards can greatly reduce the risk to practitioner and client alike.

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The AAPB Fellowship Program is a program of earned recognition for AAPB members who are making significant and sustained contributions to the science and practice of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback.

Individuals who earn fellowship may use the designation “Fellow of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback” (AAPB). The names of these individuals will be maintained in the AAPB Registry of Fellows at www.aapb.org and formally recognized at the Annual Scientific Meeting. Additionally, AAPB Fellows receive a physical display certificate (additional fees apply).

The AAPB fellowship program recognizes significant and sustained contribution to advancement of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback through

Advances in Biofeedback Instrumentation, Software, and Normative Values, I

A Guide to Normal Values for Biofeedback

A Guide to Monitoring Respiration

Care for Biofeedback and Neurofeedback Instrumentation

What Was Missing from Our Classic Psychophysiological Profile? Was It the Therapist?

Advancement to Fellow Status in AAPB

ABSTRACTS: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback

ABSTRACTS: Abstracts of Posters Presented at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of AAPB

MEMORIAL: Eleanor Criswell-Hanna, 1938–2024

SPECIAL ISSUE: Lessons Learned: A Pilot Study on the Feasibility of Using Biofeedback Monitoring in a Remote Setting with Special Forces Veterans in Saipan

SPECIAL ISSUE: The ACT of Biofeedback—Training for Psychological Flexibility