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MFT / LCSW

Effectively Treating Insomnia with Non-Pharmacologic Interventions

1.50 - CE credit hours training

$9.00 - Cost of course

This page contains important information about the course, including training details, a comprehensive course description, learning objectives, and source references. We encourage you to review each section to gain a clear understanding of the course content, educational goals, and supporting materials before beginning your training and taking the POST TEST below.

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

Effectively Treating Insomnia with Non-Pharmacologic Interventions

Follow the link below, read the material and then take the 18 question post test

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Effectively Treating Insomnia with Non-Pharmacologic Interventions

18 Questions

1. From "Nonpharmacologic Management - Introduction": Insomnia is estimated to cause direct and indirect costs of ___________ annually
2. From "Nonpharmacologic Management - Diagnostic Evaluation": Two problems with sleep diaries are that patients tend to ______________ sleep latency and _______________ the number of awakenings and total sleep time.
3. From "Nonpharmacologic Management - CBT Techniques": The following are elements of which insomnia intervention? Eliminating distractions and associate the bedroom only with sleep and sex, going to bed only when a person is tired, leaving the room if not asleep within 15 to20 minutes, and avoiding napping.
4. From "Nonpharmacologic Management-CBT Techniques": In sleep restriction, when the client's _________________ increases, his or her time in bed is increased:
5. From "CBT Manual-General Rationale": In Spielman's conceptual model of primary insomnia what is viewed as a critical sustaining element in the sleep disturbance?
6. From "CBT Manual- Collecting Baseline Data": The authors note that collecting baseline data of the client's sleep serves two primary purposes. Which two are noted?
7. From "CBT Manual- Session by Session Outline": With the CBT insomnia approach, it takes ________________ to present all the essential treatment components.
8. From "CBT Manual- Providing Sleep Education": With the CBT insomnia approach, sleep education serves two primary purposes. They are:
9. From "CBT Manual- Providing Sleep Education": The sleep education script addresses the issue of the right amount of sleep. The script emphasizes:
10. From "CBT Manual- Providing Sleep Education": The sleep education script describes the link between circadian cycles and body temperature cycles. For most people the connection is that:
11. From "CBT Manual- Providing Sleep Education": The sleep education script addresses sleep and aging. It notes that:
12. From "CBT Manual- Providing Sleep Education": The sleep education script encourages clients to actively try to recover lost sleep.
13. From "CBT Manual-Behavioral Treatment Regimen": The behavioral recommendations included in this regimen are standard for all clients, except for:
14. From "CBT Manual-Behavioral Treatment Regimen": The CBT program recommends that clients should get up if they find themselves awake for ________________ and they do not feel as though they are about to go to sleep.
15. From "CBT Manual- Determining Time in Bed Prescription": The amount of time in bed that is prescribed equals:
16. From "CBT Manual-Follow up Sessions": The author notes that follow up sessions are used for all of the following EXCEPT
17. From "CBT Manual-Follow up Sessions": The clinician will suggest _______________in time in bed if the client's sleep efficiency is _________________.
18. From "CBT Manual-Follow up Sessions": In case example #3, what did the clinician do in the face of client's worsening sleep?
Chronic insomnia is highly prevalent in our society, and it is a major cost to society in terms of health care expenditure and reduced productivity. Non-pharmacologic interventions have been studied and shown to produce reliable and sustained improvements in sleep patterns of patients with insomnia. This course surveys the identification of chronic insomnia and a variety of effective non-pharmacologic interventions for it.
  • summarize the definition and incidence of chronic insomnia, and diagnostic evaluation considerations.
  • identify a variety of effective non-pharmacologic interventions for chronic insomnia, and how to employ them.
Parul Harsura, MD and Jennifer Kessman, MD