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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782597503321

Autore

Edinger Jack D

Titolo

Overcoming insomnia [[electronic resource] ] : a cognitive-behavioral therapy approach : workbook / / Jack D. Edinger, Colleen E. Carney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-024217-5

1-281-86836-1

9786611868369

0-19-971081-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 p.)

Collana

Treatments that work

Altri autori (Persone)

CarneyColleen

Disciplina

616.8

616.8/498

616.8498

Soggetti

Insomnia - Treatment

Cognitive therapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chapter 1 Is This Book Right for Me?; Chapter 2 Sleep Education; Chapter 3 Improving Your Sleep; Chapter 4 Combating Unhelpful Thoughts; Chapter 5 Troubleshooting; Appendix: Forms and Worksheets

Sommario/riassunto

It is estimated that one in ten U.S. adults suffers from chronic insomnia. If left untreated, chronic insomnia reduces quality of life and increases risk for psychiatric and medical disease, especially depression and anxiety. There are two forms of insomnia: secondary insomnia, in which it is comorbid with another condition such as psychiatric disorders, chronic pain conditions, or cardiopulmonary disorders, and primary insomnia, which does not coexist with any other disorder, Though insomnia may be caused by any number of things, it is primarily sustained by the development of poor sleep habi