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Treatment of insomnia in adults and children: a practice‐friendly review of research
Author(s) -
Taylor Daniel J.,
Roane Brandy M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20733
Subject(s) - psychology , insomnia , bedtime , cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia , sleep restriction , clinical psychology , progressive muscle relaxation , cognition , psychotherapist , relaxation (psychology) , biofeedback , extinction (optical mineralogy) , cognitive restructuring , parent training , arousal , cognitive behavioral therapy , psychiatry , anxiety , intervention (counseling) , sleep deprivation , paleontology , biology , social psychology , neuroscience
Chronic insomnia affects nearly 16% of adults and up to 25% of children. Many clinicians are unfamiliar with the research and practice of psychological treatments of insomnia and thus do not use them with their patients. The primary goals of this article were to (a) review the research support for psychological treatments of adult and child insomnia, and (b) describe those treatments with the highest level of research support in enough detail to allow practitioners to begin to utilize them with their own patients. The adult psychological treatments with the best research support are stimulus control, progressive muscle relaxation, and multimodal cognitive–behavioral therapy, followed by multimodal behavioral therapy, sleep restriction, biofeedback, and paradoxical intention. The child psychological treatments with the highest level of research support are preventive parent education, unmodified extinction, and extinction with parental presence, followed by graduated extinction, bedtime fading/positive routines, and scheduled awakenings. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 66:1–11, 2010.