{"id":366,"date":"2017-10-04T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/?p=366"},"modified":"2021-04-25T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T08:01:38","slug":"sleep-well-feel-well-with-mental-illness-program-receives-award-from-australian-council-of-healthcare-standards-achs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/sleep-well-feel-well-with-mental-illness-program-receives-award-from-australian-council-of-healthcare-standards-achs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep Well Feel Well with mental illness Program receives award from Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr Melissa Ree from Sleep Matters is part of a team from the University of Western Australia who have implemented a sleep clinic within the north metro mental health service. We&#8217;re delighted to announce that this service has recently been awarded a high commendation from the Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So many people with mental health problems also suffer with poor sleep which often remains untreated. We know that poor sleep has a negative impact on wellbeing and mental health symptoms (depression, anxiety, psychosis). The clinic provides access to a brief (3 session) sleep therapy intervention for sleep problems occurring in the context of mental illness (insomnia, nightmares, hypersomnia). Cognitive Behavioural principles were the basis of the therapy intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results showed that the program improved sleep, depression, anxiety, psychotic symptoms and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also the recently published\u00a0<a href=\"\/treating-insomnia-in-severe-mental-illness-research-outcomes2\/\">clinical guidebook<\/a>\u00a0developed by the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bPlease contact us if you are interested in this evidence-based program for your health facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"1210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/achs-award-sleep-well-feel-well_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/achs-award-sleep-well-feel-well_orig.jpg 777w, https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/achs-award-sleep-well-feel-well_orig-768x1196.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/achs-award-sleep-well-feel-well_orig-100x156.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Melissa Ree from Sleep Matters is part of a team from the University of Western Australia who have implemented a sleep clinic within the north metro mental health service. We&#8217;re delighted to announce that this service has recently been awarded a high commendation from the Australian Council of Healthcare Standards (ACHS). So many people with mental health problems also &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/sleep-well-feel-well-with-mental-illness-program-receives-award-from-australian-council-of-healthcare-standards-achs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,57,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepmattersperth.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}