DESCRIPTION:
In this interactive presentation, participants will gain an understanding of common sleep disorders and sleep-related problems for military members. The presentation focuses on providing strategies to enhance the ability of mental health providers to assess and identify these common sleep disorders and know evidence-based treatments for them.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Explore sleep disorders common to the military population.
- Specify strategies to improve assessment practices of common sleep disorders.
- Evaluate treatments for sleep disorders common to the military population.
OUTLINE:
- Military and Sleep Problems
- Culture contributions
- Types of barriers
- Common sleep disorders
- Problems with sleep
- Insufficient sleep
- Assessment of Sleep-Wake Disorders
- How sleep is regulated
- Sleep architecture
- Classification of disorders
- Assessment goals
- Objective assessment measures
- Sleep interview
- Sleep interview video
- Sleep interview exercise
- Sleep diary
- Sleep diary video
- Problems with Assessment
- Breathing-Related Sleep Disorders
- Classifications
- Symptoms of OSA
- STOP assessment
- Sleep apnea video
- Treatment
- UPPP
- Insomnia
- Evolution from sleep disturbance to insomnia
- Diagnostic criteria
- Assessment tools (ISI, DBAS, ESS)
- Assessment considerations
- Insomnia treatment
- CBT-I components
- Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
- Classifications
- Circadian rhythm alignment
- Circadian rhythm screening
- Treatments
- Nightmare Disorder
- Nightmare disorder diagnostic criteria
- Nightmare assessment questions
- Discerning between sleep events
- EBP treatment options
- Case Study
- Recommended Reading
- Questions