Insomnia : a self help handbook / Sandy Sacre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacre, Sandy, author.

Series:

Sleep-- physiology, functions, dreaming, and disorders series.

Sleep- physiology, functions, dreaming and disorders

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insomnia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a practical and useful tool for getting your sleep back on track. Even if you have suffered from insomnia for many years, this book contains simple, easy to learn strategies to manage your sleep loss through evidence-based techniques such as cognitive therapy and stimulus control. Dr. Sacre will guide you through these approaches and explain how they work and why they are recommended above other approaches. There is a chapter on special populations that tells you what to do if you are a shift worker, long distance traveller, parent, older adult, woman (including pregnancy and meno

Contents:

""INSOMNIA: A SELF HELP HANDBOOK""; ""INSOMNIA: A SELF HELP HANDBOOK""; ""LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Normal Sleep""; ""Introduction""; ""Sleep Is Not One Single State""; ""What Kind of Sleep Is Most Important?""; ""Short Sleepers vs Long Sleepers""; ""How the Circadian Rhythm Influences Sleep""; ""What Is a Normal Bed Time?""; ""How Much Sleep Do We Need?""; ""What Kind of Bird Are You?""; ""An Extreme Case of Healthy Insomnia""; ""How Much Sleep Do Most People Have?""

""Powerful Short (and Long) Sleepers""""Is There Such a Thing as too Much Sleep?""; ""Does Your Body Need to Make up the Sleep""; ""You Have Lost?""; ""How often Do Most People Wake up at Night?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Reference""; ""Chapter 2: Your Sleep Assessment""; ""Introduction""; ""Measure 1: Sleep Patterns and Habits""; ""Measure 2: Tiredness""; ""Measure 3: Sleep-Related Thinking and Actions""; ""Instructions for Keeping the Weekly Sleep Diary""; ""Chapter 3: Why Do We Sleep?""; ""Introduction""; ""Do We Really Need to Sleep at All?""; ""Conservation Theory""; ""Inactivity Theory""

""Restoration Theory""""Learning and Brain Development Theories""; ""REM Sleep and Learning""; ""An Interesting Fact about REM Sleep""; ""When Do We Dream?""; ""Why Do We Dream?""; ""Sleep-Time Day-Dreaming?""; ""Practicing for Dealing with Threats?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Activity""; ""Chapter 4: What Is Insomnia?""; ""Introduction""; ""How Common Is Insomnia?""; ""Types of Insomnia""; ""Can Insomnia Kill You?""; ""Insomnia Caused by Physical Health Problems""; ""Factors That Affect Sleep""; ""The Three Ps""; ""Predisposing Factors""; ""Precipitating Factors""; ""Perpetuating Factors""

""Activity""""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: The Things That Help and Those That Don�t""; ""Introduction""; ""Sleep Inducing Substances""; ""Trying Harder""; ""Worrying about Not Sleeping""; ""Worrying in General""; ""Trying to Catch up on Lost Sleep""; ""Compensatory Behaviors""; ""Activity""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6: Special Populations""; ""Introduction""; ""Long Distance Travellers""; ""Shift Workers""; ""Women""; ""Older Adults""; ""Parents of Infants and Small Children""; ""Adolescents""; ""Elite Athletes""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""

""Chapter 7: A Comprehensive Approach""""Introduction""; ""It Won�t Happen Overnight, So be Patient!""; ""The Role of Hyper-Arousal""; ""The Biochemistry of Sleep""; ""The Elusive on/off Switch""; ""Behavior, Thinking and Environment Are""; ""What It�s All about""; ""Activity""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 8: Changing Your Behaviour""; ""Introduction""; ""Which Are the Most Effective""; ""Behavioral Strategies?""; ""Sleep Hygiene""; ""Preparing Your Body for Sleep""; ""Maintaining Regular Sleep Habits""; ""Relaxation Training""; ""Practicing Relaxation before Bedtime""

""Clock Off""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63463-042-4

OCLC:

914433188