This comprehensive guide considers insomnia from the sufferer's perspective, and covers:
- Cognitive restructuring
- Behavioural changes and the use of medication
- How intervention and changes in the day are important to insomnia management
- Physiological factors that determine sleep
- Strategies to improve the quality and length of sleep
It also includes assessment and management strategies, questionnaires, forms and a sleep diary, alongside case studies and a discussion of treatment in practice.
Table of contents: Management of Chronic Insomnia
1. Need to know
2. Insomnia: assessment and management strategies
3.Insomnia cases
4. Insomnia treatment in practice
Appendices - containing questionnaires, forms and sleep diary