Insomnia: A Clinical Guide to Assessment and Treaatment

A manual by researchers and practitioners for psychologists, physicians, and nurses who want to develop competence in assessing and treating insomnia. The evidence-based treatment program they describe is based on materials that have been tested and validated in such settings as outpatient clinics, primary care, and sleep disorder clinics. Clinical vignettes, summary boxes, outlines of therapy sessions, and patient handouts and worksheets are included. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Charles M. Morin joined the School of Psychology at Universite Laval in 1994, after postdoctoral training at the Medical College of Virginia, where he then worked as professor and director of the Sleep Disorders Center (from 1987 to 1994). Dr. Morin directs research on insomnia (subsidies of the National Institute of Mental Health and the IRSC) and co-directs work on the relation between sleep and cognitive and immunological functions (subsidy of the IRSC), and on empirically validated psychotherapies (subsidy of the FCAR). He is also a member of the Office of Direction of the Mental Health Network (Axis Sleep – subsidy of the FRSQ). He is an assistant head of the review for Behavioral Sleep Medicine and part of the editorial board of several scientific reviews. He directs the Center on Sleep Disorders and is a member of the Research Center Universite Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG). He was a director of the doctorate program (Ph.D., clinical orientation), from 1995 to 2000. In 1995, the American Psychological Association (APA) awarded him the Distinguished Early Career Award for his exceptional contribution to health psychology.