Demand for Sleep
What is the EEG?
Having less than the desired amount of sleep
What is Partial Sleep deprivation
The ability to successfully cope with and manage change and uncertainty.
What is resilience?
Biological factors
What is GABA dysfuction/LTP?
Biological protective factors
What is adequate sleep and nutrition?
Biological rhythm that is shorter than 24 hours
Dawson and Reids experiment
physiologically based or determined influences
What are biological factors?
A sign of social disapproval or social deficiency, often involving shame or disgrace
What is stigma?
The process of learning to identify, challenge, and modify or replace negative, irrational thoughts (or cognitive distortions) with more reasonable and helpful ways of thinking.
What is cognitive restructuring?
The hormone involved in the initiation of sleep
What is melatonin?
A persistent disturbance of the sleep–wake cycle characterised by advance of the major sleep episode to an earlier time compared to desired
What is advanced phase sleep disorder?
A state of arousal involving feelings of apprehension or uneasiness that something is wrong or something unpleasant is about to happen.
What is anxiety?
A group of drugs (‘agents’) that work on the central nervous system to treat phobias
What are benzodiazepines?
Type of meditation in which a person focuses attention on their breathing, whilst thoughts, feelings, and sensations are experienced freely as they arise.
Stage where hypnic jerks appear
A temporary period of reduced alertness and performance impairment that occurs immediately after awakening.
What is sleep inertia?
A persistent and irrational fear of a particular object, activity or situation
What is a phobia?
Behaviour therapy that aims to replace an anxiety response with a relaxation response when an individual anticipates or encounters a fear stimulus
What is systematic desensitisation?
The assistance, care or comfort provided by people to each other, typically to help them cope with a stressor or mental health issue.
What is social support?
Age where NREM-REM cycles become more regular
What is three months?
Environmental time cues
What are zeitgebers?
Used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe the physical, social, emotional, spiritual and cultural wellbeing of a person.
What is Social Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB)?
Treatments that have been found to be effective on the basis of scientific evidence.
What are evidence based interventions?
The preservation of all things to do with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ culture over time, and the sense of history, identity and belonging this provides.
What is Cultural continuity?