Recent guidelines on chronic insomnia strongly recommend multicomponent cognitive behavioral therapy and suggest a limited number of medications that might be useful. Referencing these guidelines, two experts in sleep disorders, a clinical psychologist and a physician, discuss treatment for a patient who had been taking medication for his insomnia.
Use this to:
- Watch the patient video and think about what you would recommend for this patient with chronic insomnia.
- Review the on care of patients with chronic insomnia.
- Research how cognitive behavioral therapy is done and its local availability.
- Review the potential benefits and harms of pharmacologic therapy for insomnia. What factors should promote caution in prescription of these agents?
- Test your knowledge by completing the quiz that accompanies the article.
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