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Treatments vary and depend on the specific sleep disorder. See: Insomnia; Hypersomnias; Sleep terrors; Sleep walking;
Source:ADAM
Date:August 12, 2009
A therapeutic approach based on the principle that maladaptive moods and behavior can be changed by replacing distorted or inappropriate ways of thinking with thought patterns that are healthier and more realistic. Cognitive therapy is an approach...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and "negative" emotions. (Maladaptive behavior is behavior that is counter-produ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Cognitive therapy is a psychosocial (both psychological and social) therapy that assumes that faulty thought patterns (called cognitive patterns) cause maladaptive behavior and emotional responses. The treatment focuses on changing thoughts in ord...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Hypnotherapy is the treatment of a variety of health conditions by hypnotism or by inducing prolonged sleep. Pioneers in this field, such as James Braid and James Esdaile discovered that hypnosis could be used to successfully anesthetize patients ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Hypnotherapy is the treatment of a variety of health conditions by hypnotism or by inducing prolonged sleep.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Psychotherapy can be defined as a means of treating psychological or emotional problems such as neurosis or personality disorder through verbal and nonverbal communication. It is the treatment of psychological distress through talking with a speci...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Psychotherapy can be defined as a means of treating such psychological or emotional problems as neurosis or personality disorder through verbal and nonverbal communication. It is the treatment of psychological distress through talking with a speci...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The treatment of mental or emotional disorders and adjustment problems through the use of psychological techniques rather than through physical or biological means. Psychoanalysis, the first modern form of psychotherapy, was called the "talking cu...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Psychotherapy integration is defined as an approach to psychotherapy that includes a variety of attempts to look beyond the confines of single-school approaches in order to see what can be learned from other perspectives. It is characterized by an...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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