This article examines biofeedback within the context of American health care, mind–body practice, clinical psychology, technology, and business. American medicine is shifting its emphasis from disease management to health promotion, prevention, and integrative symptom management. This biopsychosocial approach requires the use of clinically and cost-effective behavioral health interventions. Biofeedback is an ideal tool because it harnesses the mind–body connection to help patients improve disease conditions and even achieve optimal health. With its capability to teach self-regulation, to treat a variety of chronic disease conditions, to blend the technical and the humanistic, coupled with its budding research profile, biofeedback can offer clinically and cost-effective, interventions that fit nicely into the primary care delivery system. The push of the American Psychological Association for psychologists to practice in primary care settings along with the extensive training in lifestyle interventions that clinical health psychologists undergo makes them uniquely qualified to integrate biofeedback into clinical health practice. If psychologists routinely included biofeedback in their psychotherapy practices and honed their entrepreneurial skills to market it, they could create a mind–body intervention that increases the demand for behavioral care. Thus, biofeedback offers an opportunity to invigorate American psychotherapy, as the American health care system will benefit from effective holistic mind–body practices.

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生物反馈：在未来的心理治疗中利用身心联系、技术和商业的力量。

本文研究了美国医疗保健、身心实践、临床心理学、技术和商业背景下的生物反馈。美国医学正将其重点从疾病管理转向健康促进、预防和综合症状管理。这种生物心理社会方法需要使用临床和具有成本效益的行为健康干预措施。生物反馈是一种理想的工具，因为它利用身心联系来帮助患者改善疾病状况，甚至达到最佳健康状态。凭借其教授自我调节、治疗各种慢性疾病、融合技术和人文的能力，再加上其萌芽的研究概况，生物反馈可以提供临床和具有成本效益的干预措施，非常适合初级保健输送系统。美国心理学家协会推动心理学家在初级保健机构实践，以及临床健康心理学家接受的生活方式干预的广泛培训，使他们具备将生物反馈整合到临床健康实践中的独特资格。如果心理学家经常在他们的心理治疗实践中加入生物反馈并磨练他们的创业技能来推销它，他们就可以创造一种身心干预，增加对行为护理的需求。因此，生物反馈提供了一个振兴美国心理治疗的机会，因为美国的医疗保健系统将从有效的整体身心实践中受益。