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Beyond Sleep Hygiene: CBT Solutions to Improve Outcomes and Resolve Insomnia Symptoms in Clients with Anxiety, PTSD, Depression, and More

Stuck progress. Incomplete treatment gains. Symptom recurrence.

These aren’t the outcomes you want for your clients.

Anxiety, PTSD, and depression share a common problem - sleep disturbance. And you’re likely underestimating its significance.

While old wisdom suggested that insomnia was just a symptom of other disorders that would resolve along with the primary mental health condition...

...new evidence reveals that not only is insomnia a risk factor for numerous behavioral health issues and medical problems - if left unaddressed, insomnia complicates your treatment efforts and diminishes your clients’ recovery.

Insomnia must be targeted directly - and often, simply helping your clients sleep better actually decreases their other symptoms.

In this essential training, Dr. Donn Posner, distinguished Diplomate in Behavioral Sleep Medicine and founding member of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, will teach you Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), a powerful evidence-based, gold-standard treatment to help your clients put chronic insomnia behind them. You’ll get the skills you need to:

  • Increase sleep efficiency so your clients consistently get the rest they need
  • Transform your clients’ bed into a cue for sleep so they don’t toss and turn all night
  • Deconstruct unhelpful beliefs to decrease anxiety about sleep
  • Troubleshoot sleep-related problems at any stage of therapy

Purchase today and add to your clinical toolbox the treatment that is more strongly recommended than medications to improve sleep!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Distinguish acute insomnia from chronic insomnia and identify treatment implications.
  2. Conduct a thorough sleep assessment.
  3. Analyze data from sleep diaries to inform treatment.
  4. Employ stimulus control to strengthen the association between bed and sleep.
  5. Conduct sleep restriction therapy to improve clients’ sleep drive.
  6. Utilize cognitive strategies to reduce alarming sleep-related thoughts.

Copyright : 03/02/2023

Insomnia Treatment: Evidence-Based Strategies to Enrich Sleep & Boost Clinical Outcomes in Clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain & Depression

We all know the necessity of sleep –yet we often overlook addressing it in therapy. Your clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression and chronic pain are struggling with symptoms of those disorders, and everything is made worse when they aren’t able to sleep.

If your clients aren’t sleeping, do you know what to do about it?

In this recording, I’ll show you successful, proven techniques I’ve developed over the last decade on how to optimize your clients’ sleep – without medication! You don’t need to be a sleep specialist to implement these strategies in your office.

Discover evidence-based strategies to help your clients increase energy during the day, sleep more deeply and re-initiate sleep after it’s been disrupted. In addition, you’ll learn how to easily integrate these strategies into existing treatment for trauma, anxiety, depression and chronic pain.

Watch and discover:

  • New tools to assess for sleep quality & sleep disorders other than insomnia
  • Strategies to address conditioned wakefulness and restore your clients’ sleep drives
  • Sleep logs, worksheets and other tools to use in your clinical practice
  • Specific interventions for clients with comorbid PTSD, anxiety, depression or chronic pain

Add insomnia treatment to your therapeutic toolbox! 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Identify sleep disorders which require referrals to a sleep centre.
  2. Integrate strategies to build a stronger drive for deep sleep.
  3. Discuss why CBT-I is effective for clients with co-occurring issues such as pain, depression, anxiety or trauma.
  4. List treatment strategies clients can easily implement to manage their fatigue.
  5. Design behavioural experiments for clients to test unhelpful beliefs about sleep.
  6. Identify conditional arousal and teach clients strategies to reverse it.

Copyright : 25/06/2019

Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes

How many of your clients have sleep issues?

Or maybe the real question is how many of your client don’t?

Where we used to think mental health problems caused insomnia, we now know that the relationship is more circular than casual. Risky and addictive, drugs aren’t the answer. But without addressing sleep issues, and intervening in this vicious cycle, your treatment plans for mental health issues will likely be less effective and yield less successful outcomes.

You CAN help your clients improve their sleep and make your treatment of mental health issues more effective than ever before … and you don’t need to be a sleep expert to do it!

Whether you work with anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar or any other disorders, this one-day training will give you the sleep assessment tools and treatment techniques you need to guide clients out of their sleep deprived world so you can improve clinical outcomes.

Watch this training and discover how you can:

  • Naturally improve sleep in clients without the use of addictive medication
  • Identify sleep disorders and differentiate them from mental health symptoms
  • Improve sleep for clients of all ages – from kids to adults
  • Snap clients out of sleep-depriving habits with behavior changing exercises

Purchase today, and add a new tool to your toolbox to bring greater healing to your clients through the power of sleep!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze which mental health symptoms accompany the many sleep disorders and its clinical implications.
  2. Assess your clients’ symptoms for sleep disorders that impair mental health to improve treatment outcomes.
  3. Practice psychoeducation with clients to help them identify their individual optimal sleep needs for improved mental health and daily functioning.
  4. Develop an optimal individual sleep treatment plan for your clients and implement skills to help them adopt the sleep healthy lifestyle.
  5. Determine when referral for further sleep disorders treatment is an appropriate approach to manage symptoms.
  6. Evaluate the mechanisms by which insufficient sleep and sleep disorders contribute to mental health problems for purposes of client psychoeducation.

Copyright : 22/07/2022