Healthy Sleep, Healthy Minds: The Vital Connection Between Sleep and Mental Health in Young Clients

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Melisa Moore, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and a board-certified diplomate in behavioral sleep medicine. She has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and was the psychosocial director of the sleep center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Dr. Moore works with infants, children, teens, and young adults virtually and in person across the country for a variety of sleep and psychological concerns. She has written more than 50 book chapters, scientific papers, and articles for popular media. She regularly speaks to professionals and to parent groups around the world at conferences, workshops, and other venues. Dr. Moore also supervises medical and psychology trainees and has taught courses on sleep at multiple universities. She is a consulting sleep expert on the Pediatric Sleep Council’s website babysleep.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Melisa Moore maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with World Sleep Academy. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Melisa Moore is a member of the World Sleep Society.

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Objectives

1. Characterize the relationship between sleep and youth mental health.
2. Determine the biopsychosocial factors that impact sleep.
3. Describe healthy sleep in children and adolescents.
4. Recognize common childhood sleep disorders.
5. Screen for sleep problems in your practice and identify when and where to refer.
6. Describe diagnosis and empirically supported treatment of insomnia.
7. Include basic elements of good sleep hygiene into your treatment plans.
8. Examine the importance of tailoring sleep interventions to specific populations.

Outline

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 
• 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 

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Social Workers
• Case Managers
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists