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| Victor I SpoormakerSummaryAffiliation: Utrecht University Country: The Netherlands Publications
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Initial validation of the SLEEP-50 questionnaireVictor I Spoormaker
Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Behav Sleep Med 3:227-46. 2005..77). These initial findings indicate that the SLEEP-50 seems able to detect a variety of sleep disorders. The SLEEP-50 can aid in screening for common sleep disorders in the general population...
Depression and anxiety complaints; relations with sleep disturbancesVictor I Spoormaker
Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, P O Box 80 140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Eur Psychiatry 20:243-5. 2005..Results showed a high interrelatedness between sleep and depressive/anxiety complaints. Both assessment and treatment of depressive and anxiety complaints should address sleep problems...
Disturbed sleep in post-traumatic stress disorder: secondary symptom or core feature?Victor I Spoormaker
Centre for Evidence Based Intervention, University of Oxford, 32 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2ER, United Kingdom
Sleep Med Rev 12:169-84. 2008..Further clinical and research implications are discussed, and possible mechanisms for the role of disturbed (REM) sleep in PTSD are described...
Nightmares: from anxiety symptom to sleep disorderVictor I Spoormaker
Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, P O Box 80 140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sleep Med Rev 10:19-31. 2006..Nightmares are more than a symptom of a larger (anxiety) syndrome and need to be viewed from a sleep medicine perspective: nightmares are a highly prevalent and separate sleep disorder that can and should receive specific treatment...
Lucid dreaming treatment for nightmares: a pilot studyVictor I Spoormaker
Department of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Psychother Psychosom 75:389-94. 2006..Becoming lucid (realizing that one is dreaming) during a nightmare allows one to alter the nightmare storyline during the nightmare itself...
Cognitive-behavioral self-help treatment for nightmares: a randomized controlled trialJaap Lancee
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands j lancee uu nl
Psychother Psychosom 79:371-7. 2010..The aim of this study was to compare the nightmare treatments imagery rehearsal therapy (IRT), exposure, and recording (keeping a diary)--in a self-help format--with a waiting list...
Internet-delivered or mailed self-help treatment for insomnia?: a randomized waiting-list controlled trialJaap Lancee
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Behav Res Ther 50:22-9. 2012..Unsupported self-help CBT for insomnia therefore appears to be a promising first option in a stepped care approach...
Long-term effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural self-help intervention for nightmaresJaap Lancee
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Sleep Res 20:454-9. 2011..These results suggest that nightmares should be targeted specifically and that an internet-delivered self-help intervention seems to be a good first option in a stepped-care model...
Baseline depression levels do not affect efficacy of cognitive-behavioral self-help treatment for insomniaJaap Lancee
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Depress Anxiety 30:149-56. 2013..Cognitive-behavioral therapy can effectively treat insomnia (CBT-I). Randomized controlled trials have shown efficacy of self-help CBT-I, but unclear is whether excluding depressive patients boosted treatment effects...
A systematic review of cognitive-behavioral treatment for nightmares: toward a well-established treatmentJaap Lancee
Utrecht University, Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
J Clin Sleep Med 4:475-80. 2008..Three different research groups demonstrated the effects of exposure, but only one group showed the effect of IRT. Thus, RCTs that compare IRT with exposure by independent research groups are much needed...
