Braindriving & the Swingle ClinicalQ: A Targeted Approach to Treatment and Assessment
Mari Swingle, PhD
1-day workshop
Date: TBD
Workshop Title
Braindriving & the Swingle ClinicalQ: A Targeted Approach to Treatment and Assessment
Workshop Description
As the field of Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) grows in knowledge and broadens in practice, many EEG based assessments and interventions are at risk of losing their clinical focus, their clinical precision, and their clinical efficacy and efficiency.
In this burgeoning field, selecting methods (as well as technologies / equipment) can often be overwhelming for seasoned clinicians, and daunting for those entering the field.
This workshop will present the difference(s) / rationales of using Clinical vs Normative data to inform EEG assessment and treatment. It will also explore how clinical and normative approaches can often complement each other. Dr. Mari Swingle will then delve deep into the Swingle Method. She will explain the research and rational behind the method including site selection, parameter selection, and protocol selection. She will outline the importance of the ClinicalQ sites and why they were selected to target the 5 most frequent 10/20 locations sited in the literature, –and those most commonly implicated in the most common clinical complaints for which individuals seek Psychological / Neurotherapeutic services. These include, Anxiety, Depression, Focus/Attention and Memory, Perseveration, and Insomnia. These six are also part of a deregulation cluster seen / implicated in the majority of more specific ailments such as addiction(s), unprocessed trauma/PTSD, ADHD & LD, age related cognitive decline, immune compromise, behavioural issues, OCD, anger management, fibromyalgia & chronic pain, concussion, and many more.
Time will also be devoted to clinical cases and case management.
Learning Objectives
1) Reading the EEG as a Clinical assessment measure.
2) Understanding the power of targeted treatment.
3) Pattern recognition: What to look for in the EEG.
4) How to develop client specific treatment protocols and management plans.
About Mari Swingle
Dr. Mari Swingle is a practicing therapist, clinical researcher, author, educator and public speaker. She has a MA in Education, MA & PhD in Clinical Psych, and has been working in the field of Applied Psychoneurophysiology / Neurotherapy for over 25 years. She was BCIA/EEG certified in Neurofeedback (2000), Associate Fellow 2005, Fellow 2010, Senior Fellow 2017. She sat on the BOD of AAPB (2017-19), wherein her primary mandate was constructing a classification system for Neurofeedback proficiency standards for the American Psychological Association (APA) (granted 2019-2026). She was awarded AAPB Fellowship in 2020. She is a champion of Neurotherapy; dedicated not only to clinical treatment but to disseminating functional (professional and lay) understanding of what Neurotherapy/EEG BrainBiofeedback is, and equally, what it is not.
