Unlock a deeper understanding of sleep, circadian rhythm, and their powerful impact on mental health with this engaging, clinician-focused training designed to enhance your therapeutic practice. In this expert-led lecture, you’ll explore the fundamentals of sleep health and learn practical, evidence-informed strategies to help clients improve sleep satisfaction and overall well-being. As a unique bonus, the course introduces a simple, multi-tier approach to working with individual dream content—while thoughtfully honoring each client’s cultural background and lived experience. Through informative lectures, interactive discussion, and guided reflection, you’ll build confidence in addressing common sleep challenges such as insomnia, nightmares, and disrupted schedules, and gain practical tools including CBT-I strategies, sleep hygiene interventions, and an overview of supplements and medications.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how sleep impacts general health and what occurs during sleep cycles
Understand common problems (insomnia, nightmares, inconsistent schedules) and utilize interventions including CBT-I, sleep hygiene, supplements, and medications.
Develop a basic understanding of one approach toward dream analysis
AASECT CKA:
H. Health/medical factors that may influence sexuality including, but not limited to, illness, disability, drugs, mental health, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy termination, contraception, fertility, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infection, other infections, sexual trauma, injury and safer sex practices.
N. Learning theory and its application.
AASECT ST:
A. Theory and methods of sex-related psychotherapy, including several different models.