Treating Sleep Disturbance and Disorders

This webinar will focus on helping clients and professionals deal with the recurrent and serious issue of insomnia and related sleep issues.

Using interactive discussions, case study and validated assessment tools, this workshop will look at the practical challenges of helping those struggling with insomnia and consider how they can be helped in the context of professional practice in therapy, education and healthcare settings. The workshop will provide a set of practical resources and techniques for participants to use in their everyday life and professional practice.

The key questions this workshop will address are:

What practical techniques can I use with my clients to improve their sleep right now?

What causes insomnia?

What are the different types of insomnia?

How does insomnia impact on the process of therapy itself?

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)?

How can I improve my own sleep as a therapist?

Comments from previous participants in related workshops

"Excellent presenter, well-versed in subject matter and entertaining delivery style"

"Fantastic. Keeping everyone engaged throughout. Very knowledgeable"

"Thorough, concise, helpful"

"Fantastic, cogent, convincing, good timekeeping, evidence based. So pleased the worksheets have been shared free of charge!"

"Trainer was excellent. Consistently checking out understanding, energy etc + adapting to feedback"

"Very good. Authentic. Real, natural speech. Relevant, interesting material"

Excellent. Varied, inclusive, collaborative, participative. Great use of handout with questionnaires in our pack""

"Helpful and thought provoking"

"Very enjoyable. Liked the visual presentation and the practical exercises. Very inclusive and engaging".

"Delivery and content was fantastic"

"The session was really insightful and well structured. Definitely met my reason for coming along. The interactive parts were really good and showed the variety in the room. Overall amazing and kept on topic".

"Really engaging delivery of the session. So knowledgeable and the interactive nature was a great feature. Really enjoyed the day".

Resources

A full set of slides with extensive clickable links to free online resources, is sent free to all delegates after the event. This also includes references to key sources.

CPD

A CPD Certificate of Attendance confirming 2 hour skills CPD is available free on request to all delegates who attend.

Facilitator

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.