The CBT Dive

E9 Awake and frustrated: all about insomnia

Rahim Thawer, MSW Episode 9

What keeps you up at night? And how does a thought-restructuring tool help with sleep? In this special episode, I interview two sleep medicine specialists based in Australia. We discuss what drives sleep disturbance and insomnia and behavioural approaches to support people who struggle with getting good sleep. Have a look at the D-BAS 16 questionnaire below to see if you have dysfunctional beliefs that drive your insomnia.

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SCALE: Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes About Sleep:
http://www.cets.ulaval.ca/sites/cets.ulaval.ca/files/dysfunctional_beliefs_and_attitudes_about_sleep_16_items.pdf

ARTICLE: Trauer JM, Qian MY, Doyle JS, Rajaratnam SM, Cunnington D. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Insomnia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Aug 4;163(3):191-204.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26054060/

PODCAST: https://sleephub.com.au/podcast/

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Dr. David Cunnington is a sleep physician and director of Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre, and co-founder and contributor to the SleepHub podcast. David trained in sleep medicine both in Australia and in the United States, at Harvard Medical School, and is an International Sleep Medicine Specialist, Diplomate Behavioral Sleep Medicine and Registered Polysomnographic Technologist. David’s clinical practice covers all areas of sleep medicine and he is actively involved in training health professionals in sleep.

Twitter: @DavidCunnington
Instagram: @drdavidcunnington
More: https://drdavidcunnington.com.au/

Associate Professor James Trauer is a respiratory, sleep, general and public health physician, and head of Epidemiological Modelling at Monash University's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He undertook regular practice in sleep medicine from 2013 to 2017 at Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre with Dr. Cunnington, before focusing increasingly on research. His main research interests are the epidemiology and transmission of respiratory infections, which focused primarily on TB until 2019 when he shifted to predominantly COVID-19 research.

Twitter: @JamesTrauer
More: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/james-trauer

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Rahim Thawer is a queer, racialized social worker and psychotherapist based in Toronto. He's created The CBT Dive podcast to support folks who want to learn how to use a thought record and to demystify what therapy can look like.

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