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Non–Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Arousal Disorders in Children
Non–rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep arousal disorders in children are defined by partial arousal during periods of sleep, typically associated with night terrors and/or sleepwalking. NREM sleep arousal is a type of parasomnia where undesired events or behaviors occur during sleep. This entry first discusses the stages of sleep and then discusses the symptoms, causes, and treatment of NREM arousal disorders. It concludes with a discussion of how counselors can help families who are struggling with this issue.
Stages of Sleep
Sleep disorders occur during different phases of sleep; therefore, it is important to be familiar with the stages of sleep to help in accurate diagnosis and treatment. There are four stages that make up one full cycle of sleep. The stages are differentiated by eye movement ...
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- Marriage Versus Civil Unions
- Marriage, Arranged
- Men in Counseling
- Military Couples and Families
- Mother-Blaming
- Multiculturalism
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- Nudity: Beliefs and Values
- Parentification and Diverse Family Systems
- Patriarchy
- Racial Disparities in Foster Care
- Racism
- Relational-Cultural Therapy
- Religion
- Resilience
- Rural Families
- Same-Sex Couples
- Sexual Minorities
- Sexual Orientation, Attraction, and Identity
- Sexual Prejudice
- Sexuality and Religion
- Single-Parent Families
- Socioeconomic Status
- Spirituality
- Stepfamilies
- Therapists’ Values
- Transgender Families
- Transracial Adoption
- Urban Families
- Women’s Project, The
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- Debt and Financial Strain
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- Family Resource Management
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- Attachment and Health
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- Dating Coaching
- Dating Relationship Dissolution
- Empathy
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- Friendship
- In-Law Relationships
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- Loneliness
- Love and Rituals
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- Love, Physiology of
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- Marital Distress
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- Career Planning and Couples/Families
- Caregivers
- Child Behavior Problems
- Childhood Anxiety
- Childless Couples
- Chosen Families
- Chronic Illness With Couples and Families
- Couple Development
- Couples, Quality Time
- Dating Coaching
- Dating Relationship Dissolution
- Death and Dying
- Death, Parents of Deceased Children
- Divorce and Separation
- Divorce Therapy
- Dual-Earner Families
- Families and Poverty
- Family Life Cycle
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- Family Stress
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- Homelessness
- Homelessness and Youth
- Hospice
- Individual and Family Development
- Job Loss
- Life Balance
- Life Events
- Life Transitions
- Loss
- Marriage, First and Second
- Parent–Adolescent Relations
- Parenting
- Postpartum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Children
- Poverty and Family Development
- Power Issues in Couples
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Retirement
- Rural Families
- Sibling Relationships
- Single-Parent Families
- Spirituality
- Stepfamilies
- Stillbirth and Miscarriage
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- Ecosystems Perspective
- Emotional Disengagement
- Entitlement
- Epistemology in Family Therapy
- Family Myth
- Family of Origin
- Family Rituals
- Family Strengths
- Family Values
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- Fusion
- Gender Roles
- Hierarchy
- Holism
- Homeostasis
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- Identified Patient
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- Intergenerational Loyalty
- Intergenerational Trauma
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- Kinship Care
- Marriage Education
- Marriage Encounter
- Marriage Myths
- Morphogenesis
- Morphostasis
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- Neutrality and Curiosity
- Nuclear Family
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- Person of the Therapist
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- Attachment-Based Family Therapy
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- Brief Family Therapy
- Chaos Family Therapy
- Child–Parent Relationship Therapy
- Childhood Obesity, Prevention and Treatment of
- Choice Theory and Reality Therapy
- Cinematherapy
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- Cognitive Maps and Couples
- Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
- Collaborative Couples Therapy
- Collaborative Language Systems
- Community Programs
- Conflict Resolution
- Conjoint Family Therapy
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- Couple and Family Forensics
- Couples and Marriage Counseling
- Crisis Intervention With Couples and Families
- Discernment Counseling
- Divorce Therapy
- Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy
- Emotional Intelligence, Children
- Emotional Intelligence, Families
- Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
- Empirically Validated Models
- Enactments
- Equine-Assisted Family Therapy
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- Externalizing Behaviors
- Faith-Based Therapy
- Family Mode Deactivation Therapy
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- Functional Family Therapy
- Gender- and Culture-Sensitive Therapies
- Gestalt Family Therapy
- Goals, Treatment
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Grief Counseling
- Group Family Therapy
- Home-Based Therapy
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- Homicide
- Hope-Focused Approach to Couple Enrichment in Counseling
- Humanistic Family Therapy
- Hypnosis
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Individual Versus Family Therapy
- Integrating Systemic and Individual Theories
- Integrative Couples Therapy
- Internal Family Systems Model
- International Family Therapy
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Attachment and
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Couples and
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Parenting and
- Joining
- Juvenile Firesetter Interventions
- Listening, Empathic
- Love and Rituals
- Marital Group Therapy
- Marriage Encounter
- Marriage Enrichment
- Marriage-Friendly Therapy
- Medical Family Therapy
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- Milan Team
- Mindfulness
- Miracle Question
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multiple Family Therapy
- Multisystemic Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
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- No-Harm Contracts
- Normalizing
- Paradoxes and Paradoxical Intervention
- Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
- Parent Management Training
- Peer Counseling
- Play Family Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Postmodern Therapies
- Premarital Counseling
- Progress Notes for Couples and Families
- Psychoanalytic Family Therapy
- Psychobiology of Attachment
- Psychoeducation
- Punctuation
- Questions: Open, Closed, and Circular
- Reflecting Team
- Relational-Cultural Therapy
- Relationship Enhancement
- Restoration Therapy
- Rituals in Family Therapy
- Role-Playing
- Second-Order Family Therapy
- Self-Help
- Sensate Focus
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Stages of Family Therapy
- Strategic Family Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
- Support Groups
- Systemic Family Therapy
- Systems, Subsystems, and Metasystems
- Therapeutic Alliance
- Therapeutic Contract
- Torture Treatment
- Training in Marriage Enrichment (TIME) Program
- Transgenerational Family Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- Triangulation
- Virginia Satir Model
- Organizations
- Parenting
- Active Parenting
- Adoption
- Authoritative Parenting
- Child–Parent Relationship Therapy
- Child-Centered Parenting
- Children With Chronic Illness
- Foster Children
- Group Parenting Classes
- Interpersonal Neurobiology, Parenting and
- Legal Issues in Parenting
- LGBT Families
- Nonresidential Fathers
- Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)
- Parent Management Training
- Parent Study Groups
- Parent–Adolescent Relations
- Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Parental Stress: Effects on Children
- Parentification and Diverse Family Systems
- Parenting
- Parenting Education
- Parenting Styles
- Pregnancy
- Racial Disparities in Foster Care
- Rule-Setting
- Teen Parenting
- Professional Development and Standards
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- Certified Family Life Educator
- Child Protective Services
- Clinical Practice
- Clinician-Directed, Solution-Focused Supervision
- Competency-Based Standards for Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling
- Confidentiality
- Core Competencies for Marriage and Family Therapists
- Cotherapy Team
- Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
- Court-Mandated Clients
- Decision-Making
- Dual and Multiple Relationships
- Duty to Warn and Protect
- Ethical Codes
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Family Life Educators
- HIPAA Standards
- Informed Consent for Research
- Informed Consent in Clinical Work
- Licensure and Certification
- Live Supervision
- Mandated Reporter
- Mental Health, Systemic Perspective
- Moral Dimensions of Therapy
- Multicultural Counseling Competence
- No-Secrets Contracts
- Postdoctoral Training
- Practice Management
- Professional Associations
- Public Health Code
- Release of Information for Couples and Families
- Self of the Therapist
- Self-Care Practices for the Trauma-Informed Couple and Family Counselor
- Sexual Relationships With Clients
- Supervision
- Supervision Contract
- Supervision of Supervision
- Supervision Philosophy Statement
- Supervision Theories
- Supervision, Approved Supervisor in Marriage and Family Therapy
- Supervision, Developmental Model
- Supervision, Gatekeeping
- Supervision, Individual and Group
- Termination
- Therapists’ Values
- Training and Licensure
- Research
- Clinical Versus Statistical Significance
- Common Factors
- Cost–Benefit Analysis
- Couples Therapy Research
- Delphi Research Method
- Developmental Model of Marriage
- Effectiveness Research
- Empirically Validated Models
- Evidence-Based Practice With Couples and Families
- Outcome Research
- Prevention Research
- Process Research
- Qualitative Research
- Quantitative Research
- Sex Researchers
- Sexuality
- Beliefs and Values
- Birth Control and Contraception
- Childless Couples
- Compulsive Sexual Behavior
- Erectile Disorder
- Extramarital Affairs and Infidelity
- Female Orgasmic Disorder
- Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
- Fetishes
- Gender Dysphoria
- Gender Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
- Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder
- Human Sexual Response
- Incest
- Infertility
- Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
- Mate Selection
- Mindfulness and Sex
- Nudity: Beliefs and Values
- Open Relationships
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Polyamory
- Polygamy
- Pornography
- Pregnancy and Sexuality
- Premature Ejaculation
- Romance
- Same-Sex Couples
- Sensate Focus
- Sex Positivity
- Sex Researchers
- Sex Therapy
- Sex, Definition of
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Assault and Rape
- Sexual Assessment/History
- Sexual Dysfunction
- Sexual Enhancement, Sexual Toys
- Sexual Health
- Sexual History
- Sexual Intimacy
- Sexual Minorities
- Sexual Orientation, Attraction, and Identity
- Sexual Prejudice
- Sexual Relationships With Clients
- Sexual Toys/Sexual Aids
- Sexuality and Religion
- Sexuality Education
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Statutory Rape
- World Association for Sexual Health
- Special Topics
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Adolescents
- Child Guidance Movement
- Children With Special Needs in Family Therapy
- Community Programs
- Family Mediation
- Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood
- Hispanic Healthy Marriage Initiative
- Incest
- International Family Therapy
- Marriage and Health
- Media in Family Therapy
- Men in Counseling
- Military Couples and Families
- Mindfulness and Children
- Mindfulness and Couples
- National Marriage Initiative
- Online Dating
- Schizophrenia and Families
- Schools, Family Involvement in
- Self-Care Practices for the Trauma-Informed Couple and Family Counselor
- Sexual Abuse
- Statutory Rape
- Technology and Families/Marriage
- Therapeutic Impasses
- Torture Treatment
- Theory
- Adlerian Family Therapy
- Assessment, Biopsychosocial
- Attachment Theory
- Behavioral Family Therapy
- Bowen Family Systems Theory
- Chaos Family Therapy
- Choice Theory and Reality Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
- Collaborative Language Systems
- Constructivism
- Contextual Family Therapy
- Critical Theory
- Cybernetics
- Double Bind Theory
- Ecosystems Perspective
- Epistemology in Family Therapy
- Experiential Family Therapy
- Family Stress Adaptation Theory
- Functionalism
- General Systems Theory
- Isomorphism
- Love, Theories of
- Object Relations Theory
- Parental Acceptance–Rejection Theory
- Psychoanalytic Family Therapy
- Social Constructionism
- Structural Determinism
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Systems Theory
- Violence and Abuse
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