It’s no secret that insomnia frequently develops as a result of PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and a wider variety of other behavioral and medical disorders.
Donn Posner – Treating Insomnia, Transdiagnostic Clinical Strategies to Optimize Sleep & Improve Outcomes
If you aren’t asking about your clients’ sleep, you’re making mistakes as a clinician. All doctors should be aware of how to do it. to properly assess and treat insomnia – sleep is that important for your clients’ health and quality of life.
It’s no secret that insomnia frequently develops as a result of PTSD, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and a wider variety of other behavioral and medical disorders. The traditional wisdom is that insomnia can be treated by treating the primary disorder. Data does not support this old wisdom. The primary disorder may improve, but insomnia can be a problem. to There have been no improvements in the clinical outcomes of primary disorders, and there has been an increase in dropout rates and relapse rates.
Despite your best efforts, you will not be able to do everything. to If you target the primary disorder, continue to help your client to be tired and struggles more with symptoms of the primary disorder, leaving you frustrated and overwhelmed because you don’t know what to do next. The truth is, when clients have PTSD, anxiety, depression, or chronic pain, their symptoms are made worse — and treatment more difficult — when they’re not able to sleep. Insomnia must be treated immediately.
Improve Integrating the treatment of insomnia into your clinic can improve client outcomes!
Watch Diplomate on Behavioral Sleep Medicine Donn Posner, Ph.D., and he’ll walk you step-By-Step by step, you will learn how to treat insomnia. You’ll learn how to You should properly assess and plan a treatment for your insomnia. to Inform your clients about sleeping to They can become experts on their own sleep disorders. Discover evidence-Strategies based on to Help your clients to sleep better and longerEnjoy increased energy levels throughout the day. As a result, your clients’ symptoms of PTSD, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain will decrease in frequency and severity.
You’ll walk away from this recording with the tools you need to treat insomnia. Better still, you’ll add vital techniques to your clinical tool kit that you didn’t know were missing.
Learn how to Treat insomnia to revolutionize your treatment results!
- The basics of sleep nomenclature, including phase, continuity, architecture, and sleep period, are summarized below to Inform clinical treatment interventions
- Do a clinical evaluation to Clients should be able to distinguish between acute and chronic insomnia. They should also be able to articulate the importance of treating the chronic form with a targeted co.-morbidity.
- Examine the empirical evidence that CBT is effective-I for primary and co-Morbid insomnia disorder to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Describe the basic principles of sleep regulation and show how they can be applied. to These concepts should be applied to the deployment of CBT-I am in clinical practice.
- How to identify it to Get useful client sleep diary data. Strategies for analyzing this data to aid in the treatment and prevention of insomnia.
- Use the techniques of stimulation control, sleep restriction and sleep hygiene education to help you achieve cognitive therapeutic strategies. to The clinical treatment of chronic sleeplessness.
Sleep Problems with Regulation: How does insomnia develop?
- Factors that reduce the ability to sleep
- Factors that reduce the signal strength of the circadian clock
- How the circadian clock & sleep drive work together to Sleep hygiene
- How the arousal system interferes with sleep regulation
- Cognitions & behaviors that create cognitive arousal & interfere with sleep
- Recognize conditioned insomnia
Assessment & Treatment Planning
- Treat insomnia to improve outcomes of PTSD, chronic pain, depression & anxiety
- Why treating a primary mental health disorder won’t cure insomnia
- Insomnia-Considerations for the Clinical Interview
- Who are the best candidates for CBT?-I
- Hypnotic medications & sleep
- Sleep disturbances can be caused by drugs
- Take-Home assessment resources
- Sleep diary
- Limitations of research & potential risks
Assessment Factors
- Examine for coorbid sleeping disorders
- Evaluate sleep continuity
- Daytime symptoms of sleeplessness
- Be aware of your bad sleeping habits
- Additional assessment considerations
- When to Refer to Sleep specialist
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Sleep Hygiene: Decrease Clients’ Vulnerability to Insomnia
- Clock watching & implications for sleep diary
- Environmental concerns
- How eating can affect your sleep
- When to exercise
- Address caffeine, alcohol & nicotine use
Sleep Restriction Therapy (SRT). Stimulate the Sleep The Circadian Clock: Drive and Signals
- The goals of sleep restriction
- Sleep Reasons for restriction
- Step-By-Step
- Considerations when setting the sleep window
- How & when to Extend the time-In-Bed
- Before Rules-Bed activities
- Address clients’ fears about SRT
- Avoid waking up late and fighting the difficulties
- Troubleshooting insufficient Progress
Stimulus Control (SC): Conditioned Arousal
- Stimulus control goals
- Rationale for stimulus control
- Stimulus control: Step-By-Step
- Strategies to combat arousal
- Activities for nighttime awakefulness
- Address clients’ practical concerns
- Overcome all obstacles to stimulus control
Cognitive Therapy Help Clients Change Thoughts & Beliefs that Interfere with Sleep
- Reduce arousal: The buffer zone & worry time
- Educate your client to Become an expert in your own sleep disorder
- Tools to identify cognitions & belief that interfere with sleep
- Be aware of intrusive thoughts while you sleep
- Activities to Assist clients with arousal
- Reduce sleep effort & worry about lack of sleep
- Correct clients’ unrealistic expectations
- Strategies to Restructure your thoughts
- Behavioral experiments
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