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Digital Seminar

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia: CBT-I


Speaker:
Donn Posner, PhD, DBSM
Duration:
5 Hours 42 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
May 04, 2012
Product Code:
POS044335
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Join sleep expert, Donn Posner, Ph.D., CBSM, in his seminar recording that covers a diversity of subjects related to the assessment and treatment of insomnia. Learn how to effectively assess insomnia and conduct nonpharmacological interventions that you can put into practice with your clients.

Dr. Posner will provide a clear pathway to follow in using CBT-I in your practice. You will be able to determine when patients need targeted treatment for insomnia and how to deliver the techniques step by step. The seminar recording, while crafted for clinicians who practice other forms of CBT, is also a good educational experience for clinical trainees and non-CBT practitioners who wish to better understand this disorder and treatment modality.

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Speaker

Donn Posner, PhD, DBSM's Profile

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Donn Posner, PhD, DBSM, is the founder and president of Sleepwell Consultants and provides consultation to organizations and individuals on a wide variety of sleep health issues including insomnia, circadian dysrhythmia, CPAP adherence, and parasomnias. He is an adjunct clinical associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a consulting psychologist for the Palo Alto VA. Dr. Posner works on a number of grants exploring the effects of CBT-I in Gulf War Veterans, and Veterans with insomnia and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. He is also conducting a pilot aimed at using CBT-I techniques to decrease fatigue in breast cancer survivors by increasing total sleep time. Dr. Posner spent 25 years as the Director of Behavioral Sleep Medicine for the Sleep Disorders Center of Lifespan Hospitals and was a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University. He is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and is one of the first Certified Behavioral Sleep Medicine specialists recognized by that group. He is a founding member of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and he has achieved the status of Diplomate of Behavioral Sleep Medicine (DBSM).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Donn Posner is the founder and president of Sleepwell Consultants and has employment relationships with the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research. He serves as an advisory board member of Brain Train 2020 LTD and iSleep Clinic. He was a previous advisory board member for Dawn Health and Delta Sleep.io. Dr. Posner receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Donn Posner is a member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the American Psychological Association, the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Teachers, School Guidance Counselors, Case Managers, School Administrators, Educational Paraprofessionals, Nurses, Other Helping Professionals that work with children

Objectives

  • Define sleep continuity variables and understand how to define chronic insomnia with regard to diagnostic criteria (severity, frequency, and chronicity)
  • Explain the consequences of insomnia as they relate to medical and psychiatric co-morbidities of insomnia as well the cost to public health, personal safety, and quality of life
  • Summarize the various pharmacological approaches to insomnia and discuss the relative efficacy of CBT-I and pharmacotherapy
  • Conduct a sleep assessment, understand how to use a sleep diary and when polysomnography is needed, and discuss other available assessment tools in insomnia
  • Discuss how insomnia evolves into a co-morbid condition, how it requires specific and targeted treatment, and who is a good candidate for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
  • Describe the major components of CBT-I and explain the existing literature that supports CBT-I as a well established, efficacious, and front line treatment for primary and co-morbid insomnia

Outline

Insomnia and CBT-I (Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia)

  • The need for CBT-I therapists
  • CBT-I is more than a simple knowledge of the procedures
  • CBT-I is a multi-component therapy

Assessment and Diagnosis

  • Lay and archaic definitions of insomnia
  • The core of the DSM-IV-TR®, ICD-9, and the ICSD-2 classifications
  • ICSD-2: 6 types of insomnia (e.g., idiopathic, psychophysiologic, etc.)
  • History in the making: DSM-V® redefines insomnia as insomnia disorder
  • DSM-V® provides for quantitative criteria viz. frequency and chronicity but not severity
  • Insomnia (and its associated costs) is not a 1st world problem
  • The distinction between acute and chronic insomnia has treatment implications
  • 3 subtypes of insomnia (initial, middle and late)
  • Untreated chronic insomnia

Models of Insomnia

  • Etiology and pathophysiology of insomnia
  • Behavioral Model of Insomnia (Spielman Model)
  • Concept of sleep extension
  • 4 factor Model
  • Conditioned arousal (activation)
  • Concept of “failure to inhibit wakefulness” vs. “hyperarousal”

Treating Insomnia - Part 1

  • Why “a lunar moth” is a bad mascot for eszopiclone
  • Advantages and disadvantages of the various pharmacological treatments
  • Why “Abe and the Beaver” are not going to help to sell Ramelteon
  • Why both the objective and the subjective variables are required to evaluate treatment outcomes
  • Placebo effects and pharmacotherapy for insomnia
  • The last 10 years of R&D re: the medical management of insomnia
  • Advantages and disadvantages of CBT-I
  • CBT-I may affect both sleep continuity and sleep architecture
  • Alternative methods of delivery of CBT-I (Internet and group)

Treating Insomnia - Part II (It’s all about CBT-I)

  • Resources for the conduct of CBT-I
  • Predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factors of insomnia
  • The mismatch between sleep ability and sleep opportunity
  • Stimulus control
  • Sleep restriction
  • Sleep hygiene
  • Role of cognitive work in CBT-I
  • Advantages and disadvantages of combined CBT-I and pharmacotherapy
  • Rationale for 8 session treatment
  • Varying roles of the therapist in the context of CBT-I
  • The relative merits of various setting sites for one’s practice (e.g. sleep center vs. pvt. office)
  • “Tools” that are good to have on hand for CBT-I
  • Setting patient expectations
  • Essential information to chart in progress notes

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