TABS Models of Sleep-Informed Trauma Therapy

TABS refers to models of trauma treatment that target all four factors that undermine full recovery from trauma:

T – unresolved Traumatic events,

A – Attachment wounding

B – Body symptoms

S – disturbed Sleep

To date, trauma treatments have not paid attention to the critical role of fixing sleep problems that people suffering from excess stress and trauma experience. To take the first step in integrating sleep repair into your trauma treatments, become familiar with the sleep enquiry questions you have downloaded. Integrate these questions into your trauma assessments. You have now added evaluation of the critical fourth leg of the TABS treatment model into your trauma work.

This TABS model is described in detail in our book, Putting Trauma to Sleep. Each chapter includes step by step Applications: these are actions to take to integrate sleep into your trauma work.