Components of CBT for GAD includes psychoeducation, self-monitoring, stimulus control techniques, relaxation, self-control desensitization, cognitive restructuring, worry exposure, worry behavior modification, and problem-solving.
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As stimulus control therapy involves taking steps to control the sleep environment, it is sometimes referred interchangeably with the concept of sleep hygiene.
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Stimulus control therapy is a treatment for patients who have conditioned themselves to associate the bed, or sleep in general, with a negative response.
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Stimulus control, his non-drug treatment for insomnia, is studied and used worldwide, including at the Veterans Administration, as the gold standard for the disorder.
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But the program for insomnia rests on a foundation of two main therapies known as " stimulus control " and " sleep restriction ."
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A component of stimulus control therapy is sleep restriction, a technique that aims to match the time spent in bed with actual time spent asleep.
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Behavioral therapies include progressive relaxation, stimulus control ( to reassociate the bed with sleepiness ), limiting time-in-bed to increase sleep efficiency and debunking misconceptions about sleep.
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"' Relative validity "'is the process by which stimulus control may be stronger for a stimulus that is more reliable if multiple stimuli are differentially correlated.
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Finally the last characteristic of applied behaviour analysis is the use of those techniques that stem from operant and classical conditioning such as providing reinforcement, punishment, stimulus control and any other learning principles that may apply.
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Sobell received his Ph . D . in clinical psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 1970 with a thesis " A paired comparison method for assessing stimulus control with an application to DRL schedules ".
