Sleep school presentation
Within the "Life Clinic Health Connections" center, customized prevention-intervention pathways aimed at individual or group patients will be offered.
The methodology will be inspired by CBT-Insomnia, the Cognitive Behavioral pathway recognized as the "gold-standard treatment" for the aforementioned Sleep Disorder.
Meeting schedule:
1) Get-to-know-you meeting, in which the course that will be taken together is explained. Individual goals, which each participant has defined with the psychologist or neurologist, will also be shared.
2) Psychoeducation + sleep hygiene = In this phase, the underlying rationale for the demands of the various encounters are explained, so as to create greater treatment compliance. Sleep-relevant behaviors are also prescribed, as well as instructions for proper organization of the sleep-wake cycle.
3) Pharmacotherapy: why traditional doesn't work! - the need to identify specific problems or related diseases that may affect sleep - the pharmacological "weaning" program.
4) Relaxation and Arousal System= The purpose of relaxation techniques is to facilitate the natural evening wind-down process necessary for falling asleep. Appropriate times to reflect on concerns may be assessed.
6) Stimulus Control + Sleep Programming= the technique aims to have the room stimulus re-associated with the conditioned activity of sleeping alone, through prompts that build an appropriate pre-sleep routine. By virtue of each individual's sleep diary reports and hypnotype, a sleep schedule is proposed that outlines specific time windows within which lying down is recommended in order to achieve greater continuity and depth of sleep.
6 and 7) Cognitive Restructuring= techniques under cognitive restructuring aim to identify dysfunctional sleep cognitions ( which according to the literature support maladaptive sleep behaviors) and challenge them.
8) Follow-up meeting allows the effect of the course on the individual's sleep to be evaluated, and suggestions and cautions to be drawn up for the proper management of the sleep-wake cycle over a lifetime.