Sleep: Multi-Professional Perspectives

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Alex Westcombe, Andrew Green
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 15 de jul. de 2012 - 328 páginas

This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume.

The contributors explore the science of sleep - what it is, what makes it happen and why we do it - as well as the measurement of sleep, its importance for daytime performance and its sociological and cultural aspects. Sleep disorders, sleep quality and the importance of sleep for daytime performance are also explored, as are the ways in which sleep can be affected by medication and medical and psychiatric conditions.

This groundbreaking and insightful book will be of great interest to students, academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines, and anyone else who wishes to discover more about this fascinating topic.

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Foreword
9
Preface
11
The University of Sleep
13
What is it What Makes it Happen and Why Do We Do it?
18
Biological Rhythms that Influence Sleep
41
4 Cultures of Sleep
68
The Mismatch Between Western Lifestyles and Sleep Physiology
86
The Sociological Aspects of Sleep
104
10 Sleep and Psychiatry
190
11 Medication and Sleep
209
12 Too Tired to Sleep
226
13 Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Sleep in World Religions
247
Sleep and Sleeplessness in Western Literature
268
15 Sleeping on It
291
Glossary
314
The Contributors
316

The Relationship Between Daily Occupation and Sleep
121
8 Recording and Quantifying Sleep
149
Sleep Disorders
167
Subject Index
320
Author Index
325
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Alex Westcombe is a Psychologist within North Bristol NHS Trust. He lives in Bristol. Andrew Green trained in occupational therapy in York and is now a specialist occupational therapist in North Bristol NHS Trust's sleep disorders service at the Rosa Burden Centre. He has higher degrees from the University of Exeter and the University of Southampton. Since 1999 he has been involved in group and individual cognitive behavioural management of insomnia and has become increasingly involved in the behavioural management of other sleep disorders. He lives in Bristol, UK.

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