CDP Presents: Helping Patients with PTSD-Related Nightmares​
Originally presented 19 June 2019
Description: This webinar explores the bidirectional relationship between sleep and substance use disorders clinicians may encounter in their practice. First, we provide a grounding in prevalence rates of these disorders among Service members and Veterans in the context of military culture as a contributing factor. We consider how the brain regulates normal sleep in order to inform how both abnormal sleep can impact substance use disorder etiology and pathology while substance use can impact sleep regulation and parameters. To mitigate this reciprocally negative relationship, we recommend beneficial sleep-focused screening practices for patients with substance use disorders and identify gold standard treatment recommendations to which clinicians should refer patients with sleep disorder comorbidities.
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The Center for Deployment Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.