Sleep and Mental Health: Non-Medication Interventions to Restore Sleep Quality and Improve Clinical Outcomes – Catherine Darley

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How many of your clients have sleep issues?

Or maybe the real question is how many of your clients don’t?

Where we used to think mental health problems caused insomnia, we now know that the relationship is more circular than casual. Risky and addictive, drugs aren’t the answer. But without addressing sleep issues, and intervening in this vicious cycle, your treatment plans for mental health issues will likely be less effective and yield less successful outcomes.

You CAN help your clients improve their sleep and make your treatment of mental health issues more effective than ever before…and you don’t need to be a sleep expert to do it!

Whether you work with anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar or any other disorders, this recording will give you the sleep assessment tools and treatment techniques you need to guide clients out of their sleep deprived world so you can improve clinical outcomes.

Purchase this recording and discover how you can:

• Naturally improve sleep in clients without the use of addictive medication
• Identify sleep disorders and differentiate them from mental health symptoms
• Improve sleep for clients of all ages – from kids to adults
• Snap clients out of sleep-depriving habits with behavior changing exercises

Add a new tool to your toolbox to bring greater healing to your clients through the power of sleep!

1. Identify which mental health symptoms accompany the many sleep disorders and its clinical implications.
2. Assess your clients’ symptoms for sleep disorders that impair mental health to improve treatment outcomes.
3. Teach clients how to identify their optimal sleep quantity and resolve their sleep debt to improve client level of functioning.
4. Develop an optimal individual sleep treatment plan for your clients and implement skills to help them adopt the sleep healthy lifestyle.
5. Determine when referral for further sleep disorders treatment is an appropriate approach to manage symptoms.
6. Evaluate the mechanisms by which insufficient sleep and sleep disorders contribute to mental health problems for purposes of client psychoeducation.

Assessment Techniques to Evaluate Sleep Disorders

• Sleep mechanisms and importance of circadian rhythms
• Key clinical interview questions
• Why your clients need a sleep diary and how to implement it
• Practical screening questionnaires

Sleep Disorders Associated with Common Mental Health Disorders

• Differentiate sleep symptoms vs. mental health symptoms
• Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea with co-occurring disorders
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Additional other disorders
• Narcolepsy and its impact on mental health
• Correlation between nightmares and suicidality
• Sleep recommendations for PTSD
• Behaviorally Induced Insufficient Sleep Syndrome
• Insomnia increases risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Classes of sleep disorders and their associated mental health symptoms
  • Insomnia
  • Circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders
  • Sleep movement disorders
  • Parasomnia
  • Hypersomnia
  • Sleep breathing disorders

The Bi-Directional Impact of Medications

• Medications can interfere with sleep
• Common side effects of hypnotics
• Melatonin – how to naturally increase & when to use a supplement
• Nutritional supplements and herbal medicine

Sleep Deprivation and Mental Health: Recognize Symptoms and Implement Solutions

• 5 domains of sleep deprivation
  • Cognitive performance – decreases simple memory, complex problem solving and verbal fluency
  • Physical performance – increases drowsy driving and auto accidents
  • Physical health – weakens the immune system and increases risks of serious health issues
  • Mental health – intensifies anxiety, impulsivity, and emotional liability
  • Emotional intelligence – impairs moral and ethical decision making
• Implement behavior-modifying exercises

Interventions to Correct Circadian Misalignment

• Consequences of desynchrony with natural sleep cycle
• Treatment plans to protect shift workers from anxiety, depression, and other mental health disorders
• Manage mania associated with jetlag
• Mental health risk of night owls
• Strategies for clients who frequently travel
• How to regulate circadian physiology
  • Body clock
  • SCN in the brain
  • Cellular mechanisms
• Balance out melatonin rhythm

Assess Children’s Sleep Issues and Implement Strategies to Improve

• ADHD, sleep disorder, or both?
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea often mistaken as other mental health symptoms in children
• Restless Legs Syndrome
• Sleep and naps are critical for development and growth
• Children’s sleep screening and recommendations
• Step-by-step guide for parents to help kids sleep better

Techniques to Evaluate and Improve Teen Sleep

• How to determine a teenage client’s natural circadian rhythm
• Dangers of sleep deprivation in adolescents
  • Increased negative risk taking
  • Correlation between lack of sleep and suicidality
  • Decreased academic achievement and decision making ability
  • Higher rates of juvenile delinquency
  • Driving drowsy and car accidents
• Tools for increasing teens’ sleep
• School start time – how to advocate for change

Practical Methods to Create a Sleep Healthy Lifestyle

• Develop individualized healthy sleep plans for your clients – not a cookie cutter approach
• Get clients to “yes” in prioritizing optimal sleep
• Behavior-modifying exercises to help clients snap out of their sleep-depriving habits
• Address family and couple dynamics to allow everyone healthy sleep
• Tips and tricks for evening cell phone use to promote better sleep
• Techniques to reinforce long-term sleep health
• When to make a referral
  • What clients can expect from sleep disorder treatments