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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia

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Clinical Handbook of Insomnia

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This chapter provides an overview of how primary insomnia is assessed and treated using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Additionally, we provide some upfront information that reviews the CBTs regarding the etiology of chronic insomnia and some follow-up information of the efficacy of CBT for insomnia. The former is provided so that the reader may appreciate the principles on which CBT is founded. The latter is provided so that the reader may appreciate the extent to which CBT for insomnia has been empirically validated.

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  1. Sleep Program in Neurology and Sleep Laboratory of the Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratories, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA

    Hrayr P. Attarian MD

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Perlis, M.L., Smith, M.T., Jungquist, C.R., Nowakowski, S., Orff, H., Soeffing, J. (2004). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. In: Attarian, H.P. (eds) Clinical Handbook of Insomnia. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-662-1_13

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