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Sleep and Daily Function Review — Concept brief

Understand the idea behind sleep and daily function review and consider whether it fits your context.

8 minutes · Handout · Adults; supported use as appropriate

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Fictional example: Noah wants to understand whether device use is crowding out rest.

Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Practical effects can be tracked without diagnosing from a single habit.

The idea

Practical effects can be tracked without diagnosing from a single habit.

An ordinary example

Noah wants to understand whether device use is crowding out rest.

What this can look like

Record a brief, non-explicit example of bedtime choices, next-day functioning, and an optional routine adjustment.

Check the fit

What changed in functioning, and what else might explain it? You may disagree with the framing, use fiction, or decide that this approach is not useful today.

A useful distinction

A chosen change goal and a clinical diagnosis are different questions. Address functioning, control, consent, values, and distress without assuming that sexual expression itself is pathological.

Prompts for this resource

  1. What part of this idea makes sense to me?
  2. What changed in functioning, and what else might explain it?

Conceptual background

AASECT Position on Sex Addiction — American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists

Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.

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