This 15-contact-hour workshop is designed for biofeedback/neurofeedback practitioners, psychologists, clinical counselors, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals and academicians interested in utilizing heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback in their practice or research. This workshop will cover all 15 hours of the BCIA HRV Biofeedback Certificate of Completion Blueprint and will cover cardiac anatomy and physiology, respiratory anatomy and physiology, autonomic nervous system anatomy and physiology, heart rate variability, HRV instrumentation, HRV measurements, HRV biofeedback training strategies, and HRV biofeedback applications. Attendees will review the cardiac, respiratory, and autonomic anatomy and physiology that underlies HRV biofeedback. The presenters will explore emerging findings from neurocardiology that support Thayer and Lane’s neurovisceral integration model. They will emphasize the dynamic relationship between intrinsic cardiac ganglia and the brain. They will discuss the central role of breathing in diverse disorders like anxiety, hypertension, and chronic pain. Last, they will explain how HRV biofeedback restores autonomic balance and why this is important to health and performance. Attendees will be able to discuss the meaning and sources of HRV, and the correlates of low, normal, and high HRV. The presenters will explain the relationship between aging, disease, and reduced HRV. Attendees will be able explain how to properly use HRV instruments and interpret signals from blood volume pulse, electrocardiogram, and pneumograph sensors. The presenters will survey the major artifacts that contaminate recordings from these sensors and show how to prevent or minimize them. Attendees will be able to describe and interpret HRV time and frequency domain measurements. The presenters will explain how to interpret short-term and 24-hour recordings using published normative values. Attendees will be able to explain how to assess and train clients to increase their baroreceptor reflex and HRV time and frequency domain measurements. The presenters will explain how to find the resonance frequency and will present training protocols that integrate resonance frequency breathing with emotional self- regulation. Finally, attendees will be able to describe the efficacy of successful clinical and optimal performance HRV applications.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will be able to explain the cardiac, respiratory, and autonomic anatomy and physiology that underlies HRV biofeedback.
2. Attendees will be able to discuss the meaning and sources of HRV, and the correlates of low, normal, and high HRV.
3. Attendees will be able explain how to properly use HRV instruments and interpret signals from blood volume pulse, electrocardiogram, and pneumograph sensors.
4. Attendees will be able to describe and interpret HRV time and frequency domain measurements.
5. Attendees will be able to explain how to assess and train clients to increase their baroreceptor reflex and HRV time and frequency domain measurements.
6. Attendees will be able to describe the efficacy of major clinical and optimal performance HRV applications.
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