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Chapter 12 - How and When Should I Deliver Relaxation Therapeutics?

from Section 4 - Treating Insomnia Using the CBTx Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2024

Colin A. Espie
Colin A. Espie
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University of Oxford, UK
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Summary

Many patients with insomnia report difficulties with downregulating or de-arousing. Relaxation techniques have been an established component of CBT for many decades and may be a suitable option for some patients with insomnia. In this chapter a historical and scientific background to relaxation therapeutics is provided. The chapter next describes how to introduce relaxation to patients, and how to frame it as a value proposition. It goes on to provide instruction to clinicians in how to introduce, contextualise, and deliver relaxation therapeutics, namely establishing an evening wind-down routine, progressive muscle relaxation, and autogenic training.

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progressive muscle relaxationautogenic training
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The Clinician's Guide to Cognitive and Behavioural Therapeutics (CBTx) for Insomnia
A Scientist-Practitioner Approach
 , pp. 273 - 287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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