Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment

This study describes a concise treatment programme for insomnia intended for a range of health care providers. In a user-friendly manner it provides empirically-derived and clinically useful treatment procedures, comprising a cost-effective programme that can be applied to large numbers of adults with insomnia. This programme fits readily into managed care (US) and local health co-operative systems (UK), particularly as it offers an alternative to pharmacotherapy. Chapters cover an introduction to sleep and its disturbance, as well as clear-cut assessment and treatment approaches. Most of the chapters are formatted for consistency and provide regular features