Re: Jakes training

[Guest guest]

Pete,

One would normally have given up at this point. However, I press on for

the sake of Jake. I think perhaps God gave me a tough case so I would dig

deeper. Had I solved all of Jake's issues by now, I wouldn't have learned

as much as I have (thanks to all of you). Instead, maybe I would have

moved on to the next conquest. Now, I find myself more and more interested

in the field. Today I get to see the report on the SPECT. Hopefully the

QEEG report will arrive today also. Should be interesting. Jake is a

trouper letting Dad learn from him.

I instigated the training to be held in Indianapolis April 20-24. I hope

we get enough interest so you can make it happen. I'll have Jake show up

when appropriate and you can help me assess him. I look forward to meeting

you.

Regards,

Tim Fishel

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Message: 13

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 5:05:38 -0500

From: Van Deusen <pvdtlc@...>

Subject: Jakes training

Tim wrote:

1) Jake has had over 120 sessions of EEG NFB (SMR reward/Theta Inhibit),

so I have been mulling on the idea of giving nIR-HEG a crack. I was hoping

for the Pendant version to get released soon, as it is more in line with my

current budget. But, I also just had a QEEG done on (full report is

in the mail) which will give me the data to map out a better training plan.

My current plan is to do the EEG with DVD for reward.

2) The other issue is control struggles (as you put it). I usually refer

to it as the ability to motivate Jake.

Pete:

In what other field might we go blasting along for 120 sessions and seeing

no results? This is the reason I believe so strongly in assessing a client

FIRST and testing promising protocols FIRST before applying a recipe and

just assuming it would work if only the client would really try. If all

brains responded to the old chestnut of SMR at C4, life would be as simple

as if all infections responded to penicillin.

As for motivation, almost all clients begin with a capital of hope when we

start training. The biggest cost of the recipe approach is that we can

easily squander that capital in 10-20 sessions if the client sees nothing

happen. To me, anyone who has done 120 sessions (unless in prison or being

paid serious cash per session) has demonstrated remarkable

motivation--especially if the client has seen no real effect to all that.