Insomnia is highly prevalent and had severe negative consequences, yes help-seeking remains low. Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-l) is an evidence-based treatment, which targets factors that perpetuate insomnia over time. Using a format developed by Brown and colleagues (1999) of offering seft-referral psycho-educasional workshop for the community,one-day CBT-l workshops were run on a roution basis, throughout 2007, for the general public.these intensive workshop days were led by two clinical/counseling psychologists,and attracted a large number of self-referrals, participants completed a battery of measures at the introductory and follow up phases of the workshop programme including measures of insomnia,anxiety and depression. Of the 60 people who self-referred, the large majority were women,58% had clinical insomnia as indicated by the Beck Depression inventory (BDl; scores over 10).At
The follow-up stage, there were significant improvements on all measures, and there was a high degree of participant satisfaction with the workshops. Such large-scale inter ventions offer an important, potentially cost- effective means of disseminating evidence-based psychological intervention to large numbers of people.