What You’ll Discover in Donn Posner Treating Insomnia Transdiagnostic Clinical Strategies to Optimize Sleep & Improve Outcomes in Clients with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Chronic Pain
- Faculty:
- Donn Posner
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 31 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and video
- Copyright:
- July 24, 2019
Description
If you aren’t asking about your clients’ sleep, you’re making mistakes as a clinician. All doctors should know 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 Reduced improvements in Clinical outcomes for the primary disorder are higher dropout rates and higher relapse rates.
Despite everything you do, it is not enough. to If you target the primary disorder, continue to help your client to You should be more tired and have more struggles 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. The problem of insomnia must therefore be addressed immediately.
Improve Clinical outcomes in Integrating the treatment of insomnia in your practice can help clients!
Diplomate in 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 It is important to properly assess your insomnia and create a treatment plan. to Your clients should be educated about sleep to Make them experts in their sleep disorders. Discover evidence-Based strategies to Help your clients to sleep better and longerYou will also experience increased energy 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 You will need the right tools 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 Reverse the effects of insomnia with this treatment!
Handouts
| Manual Treating Insomnia (5.7 MB) | 87 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Sleep Regulation problems: How Insomnia Develops
- Factors that can weaken your sleep drive
- Factors which weaken the signal from the circadian alarm
- How the circadian rhythm and sleep drive interact to Get enough sleep
- How the arousal systems interferes with Sleep regulation
- Cognitive arousal and interferential behaviors – Cognitions and behavior that can create cognitive arousal with Sleep
- Find out what causes your insomnia
Assessment & Treatment Planning
- Treat insomnia to Improve the outcomes of PTSD and chronic pain, as well as depression & anxiety
- Why treating a primary mental health disorder won’t cure insomnia
- Insomnia-The clinical interview: Considerations
- Who is a good candidate to CBT-I
- Hypnotic medication & Sleep
- Sleep disturbances can be caused by drugs
- Take-Assessment resources for home
- Sleep diary
- Limitations of research and potential risks
Assessment factors
- Examine for coorbid sleeping disorders
- Evaluate sleep continuity
- Daytime symptoms of sleeplessness
- Be aware of your bad sleep habits
- Other considerations in assessment
- When to Refer to Sleep specialist
Sleep Hygiene: Diminution Clients’ Vulnerability to Insomnia
- Watching the clock and implications for your sleep diary
- Environmental concerns
- How eating influences sleep
- When to exercise
- Address caffeine, alcohol & nicotine use
Sleep Restriction Therapy: Strengthen the Sleep The Circadian Clock: Drive and Signals
- Sleep restriction goals
- Sleep Limitation rationale
- SRT: Step-By-Step
- Considerations to set the sleep window
- What & When? to Extend the time-in-Bed
- Before Rules-Activities for bed
- Address clients’ fears about SRT
- Combat difficulty with Wake up on Time
- Troubleshooting insufficient Progress
Stimulus Control (SC): Conditioned Arousal
- Goals of stimulus management
- Rationale for stimulus management
- Stimulus control: Step-By-Step
- Strategies to combat arousal
- Activities to help you wake up at night
- Address clients’ practical concerns
- Overcome your obstacles to stimulus control
Cognitive Therapy Help Clients Interferencing thoughts & beliefs can be changed with Sleep
- Reducing arousal by the buffer zone and worry time
- Educate and inform your client to Learn how to become an expert on your own sleep disorder
- Tools to Recognize cognitions and beliefs that interfere with Sleep
- Sleep time: Avoid intrusive thoughts
- Activities to Clients can be helped with Arousal
- Reduce your sleep effort and worry about sleeping problems
- Correct clients’ unrealistic expectations
- Strategies to Restructure your thinking
- Behavioral experiments
Faculty
Donn PosnerDBSM, Ph.D. Related products and seminars: 4
Psychologist
Donn Posner, Ph.D., Diplomate of Behavioral Sleep Medicine (DBSM), is a psychologist in clinical and research for Palo Alto VA.
Prior to Prior to his VA role, he was a Brown Medical School clinical associate professor for 25 years. He was the director of clinical behavior medicine at Miriam Hospital in Rhode Island, as well as the director for behavioral sleeping medicine at the Miriam hospital. Sleep Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals. Dr. Posner He was the primary supervisor of a rotation in the behavioral medicine track at Brown’s clinical psychology internship. He mentored postdoctoral students.-Doctoral fellows, lecturer on behavioral sleep medicine, and anxiety disorders to Fellows, interns, and residents in He is a specialist in internal medicine and psychotherapy. In addition, he was a consultant for the Veteran’s Administration roll out of CBT-I trained VA clinics in the country. in The implementation of this treatment.
Dr. Posner Is one of the authors Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Insomnia: A Session-By-Session Guide (New York: Springer/Verlag). This book is for both clinical trainees as well as non-clinical professionals.-Insomnia sleep specialists can also be referred to by more experienced sleep physicians from other areas. to Find out how to Provide empirically supported cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) for insomnia-I).
Dr. Posner Member of the American Academy of Sleep Medical and was also one of the first behavioral sleep medicine specialists to be recognized by that organization. He is also a founder member of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Sleep Diplomate in Medicine with The SBSM, which is the highest level in qualification and competence that an organization grants, is the highest.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Donn Posner Adjunct clinical associate professor at Stanford University of Medicine. He is a Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research clinical researcher. Dr. Posner PESI, Inc. gives a speaking honourarium
Non-financial: Donn Posner The American Psychological Association and Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies are members of his organization.Sleep Medicine.
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