ABSTRACT
Neurofeedback is, in fact, an alternative treatment, but it is moving into the mainstream. More than one parent has certainly watched his or her child staring at a simple game screen and wondered how this could possibly be helping. Neurofeedback is not a simple treatment that fixes problems. It is a scientifically based technique that can allow the client's brain to learn self-regulation skills. These skills have clinical relevance, and changes in brain regulation will be manifest in symptomatic and subjective changes. It is defecting by these changes that neural feedback has its clinical value. Aside from observing the screen and allowing oneself to learn, there is really little else to the experience of neurofeedback. One of the more fascinating, and possibly daunting, aspects of neurofeedback is the role of volition in instrumenting change. Neurofeedback does open the question of causality, particularly with regard to how intentions and actions are interrelated.
