Estimated Course Length: 2 hrs. 15 min

Course Includes: 6 modules with over 20 components in each module (components consist of a mixed media approach with roleplays, video interviews with subject matter experts, animation explainer videos, knowledge games and more)

Companion Videos: 2 companion videos for your clients specifically designed to reinforce skills learned in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia treatment; over 120 mental health literacy videos for clients on a host of mental health topics

Downloadable PDFs: 5 downloadable PDFs expanding on relevant course topics

Target Audience: Mental Health Providers (licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed psychologists, licensed marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, behavioral health nurses); Physicians; Nurses

Level of Instruction: Advanced

Prerequisite: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Foundations: A Skills-Based Approach

Instructional Method: Self-paced, interactive, hybrid of audio, text, video, and learning checks

Accessibility Accommodations: Closed captioning of all audio and video components

After completing this course, you will be able to describe and employ the following:

1. Distinguish the subsets of insomnia and utilize the three Ps in considering a diagnosis, evaluating the client’s indicators of readiness for CBT-I.
2. Evaluate client’s sleep hygiene utilizing the CBT model and describe the four following techniques: sleep restriction, stimulus control, sleep diary, and out-of-session action plans that facilitate better sleep hygiene.
3. Specify three second line intervention strategies: cognitive therapy, relaxation training and sleep compression. Detail four forms of relaxation training: progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, autogenic training and imagery training.
4. Describe the following: behavioral and cognitive modification, identifying and restructuring unhealthy habits of sleep hygiene and catastrophic thoughts, and client homework assignments.
5. Explain client progress by tracking sleep titration and a client’s indicators of readiness for termination of therapy, and/or potential for relapse by reviewing client’s sleep diaries and creating a post-therapy plan.