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Sleep and PTSD in the Military Forces: A Reciprocal Relationship and a Psychiatric Approach - ohsw

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Method Computer-Based Training

Course overview

Sleep disturbances are well-recognized symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This review updates knowledge regarding the relationship between sleep during deployment, combat-related trauma, and PTSD in military personnel, from which the importance of restorative sleep results. The description of the characteristics of sleep in military forces with the considerable roles of the operational and training contexts highlights the important consequences of degraded sleep. Indeed, a lot of data suggest a dynamic link between sleep and the onset and chronicity of PTSD. We propose a reciprocal relationship model with strategies strongly recommended or already adopted by the military to promote restorative sleep before and after combat exposure. Among the alterations in a variety of sleep architecture and sleep patterns described in PTSD, the physiological hypothesis of REM sleep fragmentation in the development of PTSD symptoms may be important because REM sleep is generally associated with emotional memory. Finally, we address clinical and research perspectives that could be used to detect or restore sleep continuity before and during military deployment to possibly alleviate nightmares and insomnia related to combat exposure and PTSD occurrence and improve our understanding of sleep in PTSD. This course is based on the reading-based online article, Sleep and PTSD in the Military Forces: A Reciprocal Relationship and a Psychiatric Approach created by Emeric Saguin, MD, et al. in 2021.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board

Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist

1h Continuing Education for Marriage and Family Therapists

Licensed Independent Social Worker

1h Continuing Education for Social Workers

Licensed Social Worker

1h Continuing Education for Social Workers

Marriage and Family Therapist

1h Continuing Education for Marriage and Family Therapists

Registered Social Worker Assistant

1h Continuing Education for Social Workers

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  • ##### Course Creator: Elizabeth Mosco, Ph.D., PMH-C, CPLC
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