NSC 4312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Behavioral Medicine, Relaxation Technique
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Sleep medicine: sleep disorders, review dsm-5 for them. Characterized by difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep: not do to other disorders but sleep stages. Contributes to daytime impairment or causes marked distress. It has a gradual onset: because of the behaviors that reinforce poor sleep. Precipitating factors like stress: caused by this that can promote poor sleep. Perpetuating factors: sleep practices, behaviors, rituals and patterns before sleep, beliefs about sleep, emotional arousal, evidence based approaches to treat insomnia, must address. Because this condition is this diverse and has many components that contribute to it: treatment- no more sleepless nights- book /self-help. Stimulus control therapy: characteristics, bed and sleep is a stimulus so we must condition when we approach the bed to go to sleep. If you don"t fall asleep, get out of bed. Our bodies know when we need rest and napping intervenes with that: you want your body to know it is time for sleep.
