Role of Sleep in Youth Mental Health
- Sleep relates to top 3 leading causes of mortality in teens, how?
- Bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health in terms of:
- Anxiety
- OCD
- PTSD
- Depression
- Inattention and hyperactivity
- Anxiety
- Sleep and developmental conditions such as Autism and ADHD
- Suicidality
- Other risk-taking behaviors
Factors Influencing Sleep
- Biopsychosocial factors
- Sleep physiology
- How do these change with development?
- Sleep stages relate to sleeping through the night
- You can’t force sleep, but you can force wake
- Blue light, melatonin, and night mode
What is Healthy Sleep?
- Definition from pediatric sleep experts
- BSATED model (6 pillars of sleep health)
- Duration and variability
Common Sleep Disorders in Childhood
- Medical sleep disorders
- Behavioral sleep disorders
- Psychological and medical conditions that cause sleep problems
Assessing Sleep
- How to screen for sleep disorders as a non-medical provider
- When and where to refer
- Measurement of sleep
- Laboratory sleep studies such as polysomnography and how to prepare
- What about wearables?
- 24-hour sleep interview
Diagnosing and Treating Insomnia
- Medical and psychological criteria
- Behavioral insomnia vs. primary insomnia
- 3P Model of insomnia
- Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia
- Adaptations for children
Importance of Good Sleep Hygiene and Routine
- Overwhelming research on bedtime routines
- What is a good bedtime routine anyway?
- Sample bedtime chart
- Creative ways to get through the routine
- What is sleep hygiene
- Are electronics really so bad?
Tailoring Sleep Recommendations to Psychological and Developmental Conditions
- Trauma informed sleep interventions, 4 C Model
- Cultural factors
- Geographic, ethnic, religious preferences
- Special populations (LGBTQ+, foster children, unhoused)
- Developmental factors
- Sleep in neurodevelopmental conditions
- Sample social story
Risk and Limitations of Sleep Research and Interventions
- Research limitations and future directions
- Risk and limitations of current empirically supported interventions