What does cognitive behavioral therapy for sleep involve?

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
What does cognitive behavioral therapy for sleep involve?]

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[Text on screen: Helena Rempala, PhD
Psychologist
Ohio State Wexner Medical Center]

Helena Rempala, PhD: Cognitive behavioral therapy for sleep issues, that's a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy. The one that is the most popular and most effective is cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. 

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We have lots of types of cognitive behavioral therapies for depression, for anxiety, for panic disorders, and we also have one for insomnia. We do have protocols because that's how we call our different versions of cognitive behavioral therapies. So we do have different protocols for different sleep issues other than what we generally consider to be insomnia, which would be difficulties falling asleep, difficulties staying asleep, waking up too often, being anxious about falling asleep.

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Sleeping too late, not being able to get up.

[Text on screen: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
For more information, visit: go.osu.edu/insomnia]

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