Sleepdialectical Behavioral Training



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DAY 2 DAY DATE DAY 3 DAY DATE DAY 4 DAY DATE National Sleep Foundation Sleep Diary COMPLETE IN MORNING COMPLETE AT END OF DAY. Lifestyle modifications and cognitive behavioral treatments for sleep problems may include: Relaxation training. Cognitive therapy. Stimulus control (SC) Sleep restriction therapy. Behavioral Tech is a professional training organization; our administrative staff members cannot offer clinical services or advice. Please refer to this list of helplines who have persons trained to help in the event of a crisis, or talk with you about whatever is on your mind. We all have nights when sleep seems elusive, but some of us experience sleep problems and insomnia with regularity, which forces us to take prescription drugs for sleep. Recent research has indicated that mindfulness can help improve sleep.

  1. Insomnia Assessment/Brief Consultation

1-2 sessions to assess for insomnia and other potential needs. Use questionnaires for assessment and providing information (and addressing misconceptions) about sleep. Resources and recommendations for further help.

2. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

CBT-I is evidenced based therapy that addresses misconceptions about sleep and helps you acquire new sleep habits. The goal is to sleep through the night and preventing chronic insomnia from relapsing over the long term in 4-8 sessions.


WHY CBT-I AT BEHAVIORAL SLEEP CENTER?

There are many forms of CBT-I, but here are the reasons you should choose CBT-I at Behavioral Sleep Center:

  • Sleep Efficiency Training, not all practitioners who treat insomnia provide this behavioral intervention.

  • Evidenced-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I) standardized at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

  • Standardized CBT-I has a treatment response rate of 60%. Of those who responded to CBT-I, 65% attained remission even after treatment has been discontinued (Posner, D., 2017)

  • Strong evidence of CBT-I’s effectiveness in other sleep problems: acute and co-morbid insomnia

  • Long term effectiveness without medication.

4-8 SESSIONS TYPICALLY INCLUDES:

Initial Clinical Interview

Sleep Assessment and Questionnaires

Sleep Tracking with Diaries

Discussion of treatment options

Sleepdialectical Behavioral Training

CBT-I Interventions (Sleep Efficiency Training and other Treatments)

Relapse Prevention


3. Higher Level Wellness for Sleep

Dialectical

Find your sleep number.

Sleepdialectical behavioral training classes

CBT-I treatment adapted towards wellness, optimizing sleep and solidifying skills in preventing relapse of chronic insomnia.

My experience and work mostly addresses the sleep concerns of Silicon Valley Professionals. A majority of those helped have worked at companies such as Google and Apple.

Interventions are individualized, uses data, and incorporates the science of sleep.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Definition

Most of the time, and if appropriate, CBT-I can be an alternative to medication.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Certification

Use the best available science about sleep and our brain to leverage more efficient and effective sleep habits while improving the match between your unique sleep need and sleep opportunity.

Training Courses Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Trying too hard to sleep can increase frustration and worsen sleep. Simply sleeping more or cutting caffeine is often not enough.

Dialectical behavioral therapy training

Sleep deprivation can leave you exhausted, stressed and can contribute to health problems. And when you’re a parent, you lose sleep. During that first year of infancies, parents can lose hundreds of hours of sleep. Each family might handle the division of night time tending to an infant differently and fathers are also often sleep deprived. The sleep deprivation can often send such people scampering onto the internet to look for places which can give them a decent mini review on CPAP and APAP systems which help in inducing sleep.

Sleepdialectical Behavioral Training Classes

Women of young children and babies often are particularly sleep deprived. For example, a woman who is breast feeding her baby will have to wake for feedings at night, and the baby needs a place to sleep, so having a crib is important and there are kids furniture brands that help with this. According to the Department of Labor in 2009 122 million women age 16 years and over in the U.S. were labor force participants—working or looking for work. As many as 3 quarters of working women are mothers. Continue reading “Strategies to Improve Sleep for Working Parents” »