Dr. Colleen E. Carney is a Professor and Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. They are the current President of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), Insomnia and Other Sleep Disorders Special Interest Group. Dr. Carney was previously on faculty at Duke University Medical Center, where they were a recipient of the prestigious National Sleep Foundation’s Pickwick Fellowship. Main research areas include: how to best treat insomnia in the context of other mental health conditions and understanding comorbid insomnias. Dr. Carney’s research has received support from the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH076856), National Institute of Nursing Research (R21 NR010539), the Canadian Institute of Health Research, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council. As part of their clinical trial research, the SADLAB provides free Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for those with insomnia and other conditions. Dr. Carney trains students and mental health providers in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia at invited workshops, and international conferences each year, as well she helps practices implement CBT-I via intensive staff training and longterm consultation in varied treatment settings (e.g., primary, family care, mental health clinics). Dr. Carney has over 100 publications on the topic of cognitive vulnerability to insomnia and depression, and is a passionate advocate for improving treatment options for those with insomnia and other health problems.
Selected publications
Lau, P.H., Marway, O.S., Carmona, N.E., Starick, E., Iskenderova, I., & Carney, C.E. (In press). An investigation of further strategies to optimize early treatment gains in brief therapies for insomnia. Behavioral Sleep Medicine.
Tang, N. K.Y., Saconi, B., Jansson-Fröjmark, M., Ong, J.C., & Carney, C.E. (in press). Cognitive Factors and Processes in Models of Insomnia: A Systematic Review. Journal of Sleep Research.
Chaput, J.P., Carney, C.E. Dang-Vu, T., Davidson, J., Robichaud, R., Sampasa Kanyinga, H., & Morin, C.M. (in press). Economic burden of insomnia symptoms in Canada. Sleep Health.
Marway, O. S., Lau, P. H., Carmona, N. E., & Carney, C. E. (2023). What are patients completing Cognitive Behavioral Insomnia Therapy telling us with their post-treatment Insomnia Severity Index scores? Sleep Medicine, 103, 187–194.
Lau, P.H., Marway, O.S., Carmona, N.E., & Carney, C.E. (2022). Examining whether changes in sleep habits predict long-term sustainment of treatment gains in individuals remitted from insomnia after CBT-I. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 1-12. DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2022.2124993
Maich, K. H., Lachowski, A. M., & Carney, C. E. (2018). Psychometric properties of the consensus sleep diary in those with insomnia disorder. Behavioral sleep medicine, 16(2), 117-134.
Carney, C. E., Edinger, J. D., Kuchibhatla, M., Lachowski, A. M., Bogouslavsky, O., Krystal, A. D., & Shapiro, C. M. (2017). Cognitive behavioral insomnia therapy for those with insomnia and depression: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Sleep, 40(4), zsx019.
Carney, C. E., Buysse, D.J., Ancoli-Israel, S., Edinger, J.D., Krystal, A. D., Lichstein, K.L., & Morin, C.M. (2012). The Consensus Sleep Diary: Standardizing prospective sleep self-monitoring. Sleep, 35(2):287-302.
