Journal of International Psychiatry

Abstract:Traditional cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia（CBT-I） is limited its acceptability and scalability by the time, geography, and lack of professionals. With the development and popularization of computer and network technology, e-aid CBT-I has gradually emerged and developed into an effective way of clinical treatment of insomnia disorder.E-aid cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia is to input the relatively fixed content in CBT-I into a program, form a specific treatment module, design a complete set of software programs, and patients operate the specific software programs with the help of intelligent terminals.Up to now, the e-aid CBT-I has been rapidly developed and applied in European and American countries, but its development and application in China is still in the initial stage.This review psycho-behavioral mechanism of insomnia disorder and discusses the forms, effects as well as the advantages and disadvantages of e-aid cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia,hoping to get positive impact in clinical practice．

Keywords: e-aid; cognitive behavioral therapy; insomnia disorder