Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia

A Session-by-Session Guide

By: Michael L. Perlis, Carla Jungquist, Michael T. Smith, Donn Posner

Narrated by: Jeff Wisniewski

Cognitive behavior therapy, which has been adapted to treat so many problems, has also brought data-driven and data-yielding treatment to insomnia. Focusing on this evidence-based modality, cognitive behavioral treatment of insomnia (CBT-I) is a much-needed treatment manual that provides clinicians with the whys and hows of this approach in concise and practical terms.

This book, which is written as a listener-friendly guide, is intended for clinical trainees, non-insomnia sleep specialists, and for expert CBT clinicians from outside the sleep medicine field who wish to begin the process of learning to provide empirically validated CBT-I.

The book is organized into seven parts: definition of insomnia; review of the conceptual; framework for treatment; overview of the components of therapy; session-by-session guide; dialogues; assessment and eligibility for CBT-I; and sample documentation. The organizing principles for the guide can best be expressed as two seemingly simple questions:

"Who is appropriate for CBT-I?"

"What does one need to know to set up a behavioral sleep medicine service?"

The guide provides all that one needs to confidently answer these questions.

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Robot voice, good guide

A clear, manual for CBT-I with structure and specific prescriptions. Definitely geared towards higher-education, higher ses patients.

The narration is terrible, literally sounds like a robot voice fed the text. I really think “narrated by” just means that narrator read the individual words and they were put together later.

Terrible presentation

I had to quit listening to this book after just a short time because the voice actor sounds like a robot and doesn’t know how to pronounce the letter S.