Welcome to the CBT-I Conference Site

Thank you for your interest in the Penn CBT-I Seminar.

This web site is designed to provide:

1. Information about our CBT-I seminar: When, Where and What's involved.
2. General information about the educational resources that are available to those who wish to learn about Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
3. An archive intended for those that have attended the seminar: an instrument archive, a digital library, all the slide sets from the seminar, and a full set of the seminar lectures. This section of the web site, which can only be accessed with permission, will be continually revised and expanded.

Mission & Vision

The purpose of this seminar is simple: to provide therapists unfamiliar with Behavioral Sleep Medicine the opportunity to "jump start" their training in the Cognitive Behavioral treatment of insomnia. The 3 day seminar is an intensive educational experience that covers a diversity of subjects related to the etiology and pathophysiology of insomnia and to the assessment and treatment of insomnia. Successful completion of the seminar is intended to position experienced therapists to begin practice with CBT-I in the context of an apprenticeship model and further continuing education activities.

To date, our seminar has offered training, world wide, to more than 1000 clinicians. This represents, to our way of thinking, a good start towards are ultimate goal: to provide a pathway toward the ultimate goal of having enough BSM / CBT-I clinicians available to provide such services at each and every sleep disorders center clinic in the United States.

The seminar, while crafted for established and experienced clinicians who practice other forms of CBT, may also serve as a good educational platform for clinical trainees and non-CBT practitioners who wish to be better informed about this treatment modality.

Click here to view slide sets about who should provide services in Behavioral Sleep Medicine and one proposed pathway towards training in CBT-I.