Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment [Hardcover]

Charles M. Morin (Author), Colin A. Espie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0306477505 | ISBN-13: 978-0306477508 | Edition: 2003

This is a practitioner's guidebook presenting steps to assessing and treating a problem that borders on health and psychology. It is an invaluable resource for psychologists, nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals and all those who deal with sufferers of chronic sleep problems.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Dr. Charles M. Morin joined the School of Psychology at Université 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 Université 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 190 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2003 edition (June 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306477505
• ISBN-13: 978-0306477508
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #355,335 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great overall insomnia reference for clinicians, March 16, 2006

By 

James D. Wright (Wichita, Kansas) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment (Hardcover)

Insomnia is a daily complaint among psyhotherapy patients, but msot of us as clinicans seem to have little to offer in terms of empirically validated treatments. This book gives a thorough review of the causes and types of insomnia, as well as viable treatment options. My only complaint is the price--sixty-five plus dollars seems a little steep for a 120 page book, no matter how well written.

James Wright, Ph.D.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pseudointellectual clinical garbage, October 17, 2011

By 

C. Qu - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment (Hardcover)

In my search for a good background source of literature on insomnia I got my hands on the entire subject collection at our local university.

This book is a large authoritatively looking volume (as most other books listed below). I scanned through the chapters, index and contents - there's not a word about one of the most common causes of insomnia - metal neurotoxicity. Not a word! Not a word about mercury, cadmium, thallium etc.

Instead this "clinical" book is just a worthless collection of useless, diagnostically unhelpful facts regarding every single aspect of sleep. There's little about "DIAGNOSIS" and everything about which drugs to push on you.

If you are a medical student or a medical professional who are examined in this field - go ahead with it. Otherwise, the book is as shocking as the value of advice you will likely to get from qualified practitioners - they will regurgitate whatever they remember from these useless books mindlessly learned back in their university days. But it's Garbage-In-Garbage-out, that's it.

The complete list of garbage this review applies to:

Sleep and Sleep Disorders:: A Neuropsychopharmacological Approach - Malcolm Lader

Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook - Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong

Understanding Sleep and Dreaming - William H. Moorcroft

Insomnia: A Clinician's Guide to Assessment and Treatment - Charles M. Morin

Clinical Handbook of Insomnia (Current Clinical Neurology - Hrayr P. Attarian

100 Q&A About Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Second Edition (100 Questions & Answers about . . . - Sudhansu Chokroverty

Clinician's Guide to Sleep Disorders (Neurological Disease and Therapy - Nathaniel F. Watson

A Clinical Guide to Pediatric Sleep: Diagnosis and Management of Sleep Problems - Jodi A. Mindell

Clinician's Guide to Pediatric Sleep Disorders - Mark Richardson

Sleep and Movement Disorders - Sudhansu Chokroverty

Clinical Sleep Disorders - Paul R. Carney

A Clinical Guide to Sleep Disorders in Children and Adolescents - Gregory Stores

Insomnia and Other Adult Sleep Problems (The Facts - Gregory Stores

Sleep Disorders: Diagnosis and Therapeutics - S. R. Pandi-Perumal

For the total cost of $1680 on amazon.com.