I am a firm believer in the potential benefits of ACT for a range of difficulties.
Do people have information about ACT for sleep?
Does anyone have clinical experience of using ACT-related interventions and a sense of how successful the interventions were?
Thanks!
Acceptance one's problem has great therapeutic value. As far as commitment is concerned I have some doubt. Commitment may lead to strengthening of superego which is not good for a normal personality.
In my experience many psychologists do acceptance based work instead of the cognitive parts in insomnia treatment together with sleep restriction and stimulus control. We did in fact develop a questionnaire for acceptance in insomnia.
Article Measuring Acceptance of Sleep Difficulties: The Development ...
I've only read one study that looks at ACT for insomnia: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/365173
I've used mostly CBT-I for sleep, but I imagine the mindfulness component of ACT would work quite well as would cognitive defusion for people who are kept up by thoughts... the only thing is that sleep hygiene and behavioral changes aren't inherent in the model but you could probably blend the behavioral components of CBT-I and ACT for sleep... would be an interesting interventions.
Thanks for your response Evan Plys - I'll have a look at the study you gave the link for. I agree - I think it would be an interesting intervention.
I also know of The Sleep Book by Guy Meadows, which uses ACT techniques to work with insomnia.
https://my.thesleepschool.org/insomnia-cure/products/