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This chapter is devoted to actual treatment implementation of the core behavioral strategies. In this and subsequent chapters, we provide “nuts and bolts” descriptions to aid the reader in understanding and effectively delivering a number of psychological, evidence-based treatments to those with insomnia and other anxiety-related forms of sleep difficulties. This chapter focuses exclusively on insomnia and provides methods for identifying and correcting common sleep-disruptive habits or practices that are generic characteristics among insomnia sufferers. The discussion begins by demonstrating the use of a sleep diary for identifying the common behavioral treatment targets, namely those common problematic behaviors that serve to perpetuate insomnia. Subsequently, we provide text that can be used to present the treatment rationale in therapy and then consider how to combine and deliver stimulus control and sleep restriction therapy instructions. The chapter concludes by reviewing strategies for addressing other sleep-interfering habits and sleep environments that cause them some sleep disruption. Overall, this chapter is designed to provide step-by-step instructions for implementing effective behavioral insomnia treatment strategies as well as a number of useful paper-and-pencil tools for aiding the clinician in conducting this form of intervention.
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Carney, C.E., Edinger, J.D. (2010). Behavioral Strategies for Managing Insomnia. In: Insomnia and Anxiety. Series in Anxiety and Related Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1434-7_6
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