An Expert Consensus Statement for Implementing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares in Adults.

Objectives: Research supports cognitive behavioral therapies for nightmares (CBT-N) in adults. However, the nuances of implementation and unstandardized nomenclature for treatment components has created confusion in the field. To provide clarification, an expert consensus panel convened to review treatment manual components and to develop guidelines for the standardized implementation and terminology of CBT-N.

Harnessing the Power of Integrated Behavioral Health to Enhance Insomnia Intervention in Primary Care.

Insomnia is prevalent in primary care and associated with co-morbid physical and mental health conditions and poor health outcomes. While there are effective treatments for insomnia in specialty mental health care, many patients have difficulty accessing these interventions. To begin, patients do not always report their sleep challenges to physicians; meanwhile, primary care providers often do not screen for insomnia symptoms.

App-Supported Sleep Coaching: Implications for Sleep Duration and Sleep Quality.

Objectives: The present study evaluated whether completers of a 12-week app-based, personalized text supported sleep coaching program demonstrated improvements in sleep continuity, sleep duration, and reduced use of sleep aids.

Methods: Data were obtained from Sleep Reset, a 12-week consumer product that offers app-based sleep education and monitoring, along with personalized text-based sleep coaching provided by live coaches. 564 completers were included in the study.

Bedtime procrastination mediates the relation between anxiety and sleep problems.

The prevalence of sleep problems is high in primary care patients and in anxious individuals. This study assessed whether total sleep time and bedtime procrastination mediated the association between anxiety and sleep problems. We predicted higher anxiety would be negatively associated with total sleep time and positively associated with bedtime procrastination and sleep problems, and these variables would statistically mediate the association between anxiety and sleep problems.

An experimental test of the effects of acute sleep deprivation on affect and avoidance.

Background And Objectives: Avoidance and sleep have been identified as mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of many mental health disorders. However, there has been little research into the relation between sleep and avoidance.

Methods: To address this, a randomized controlled experiment using behavioral and self-report measures of affect and avoidance was conducted.

Greater adolescent tiredness is related to more emotional arousal during a hyperventilation task: An area under the curve approach.

Introduction: Approximately 36% of adolescents report sleep problems (Crowley et al., 2018). Understanding the relation between sleep and emotional experience is crucial in understanding the high incidence of mental health concerns during adolescence.

Sleep in PTSD: Conceptual model and novel directions in brain-based research and interventions.

Peri-traumatic sleep disturbances are growingly recognized as biologically-relevant and modifiable predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The exponential growth of the literature on sleep in PTSD over the last two decades has stimulated a paradigm shift in the conceptualization of the relationship between sleep and PTSD. A conceptual framework that captures this paradigm shift is offered.