Learning objectives
At the end of the training activity, the student:
- understands the sleep process and the techniques for studying it;
- understands chronobiology and chronopsychology by examining the significance of the 24-hour wake/sleep alternation;
- understands the inconveniences associated with changes in the wake-sleep cycle;
- recognizes sleep disorders;
- understands some useful tools for clinical practice.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Theories related to the functions of sleep. Review on the beliefs and theories around the nature and the meaning of the dreaming.
Methods of search - Techniques of study of the sleep. Techniques of study of the dream.
Physiological aspects - The sleep onset process. The awakening process. Two types of sleep: NREM and REM. Need of sleep.
Classification of the rhythms: infradian, circadian, ultradian. Chronobiological model of sleep regulation.
Clinical aspects - Classification of the sleep disorder. Chronobiological aspects in clinical psychology.
Clinical Cases of Sleep consultation.
Full programme
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Bibliography
material provided by the teacher
Teaching methods
Traditional didactics.
Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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