طب رفتاری خواب: یک تخصص فرعی در حال ظهور در روانشناسی سلامت و پزشکی خواب

The term “behavioral sleep medicine” was selected because it clearly denoted the two fields from which our subspecialty emerged (health psychology/behavioral medicine and sleep disorders medicine). It suggests much about our approach to training, clinical practice, and research, and it appropriately implies that the field is open to PhD sleep specialists, MD sleep specialists, and other health care providers with the relevant training. Formally, behavioral sleep medicine refers to the branch of clinical sleep medicine and health psychology that: (1) focuses on the identification of the psychological (e.g. cognitive and/or behavioral) factors that contribute to the development and/or maintenance of sleep disorders and (2) specializes in developing and providing empirically validated cognitive, behavioral, and/or other nonpharmacologic interventions for the entire spectrum of sleep disorders.