Afraid and Awake: The Interaction Between Trauma and Sleep in Children and Adolescents

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Type:
  Training
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
CE credits:
1.0 CEs
Presented by:
UCLA Child & Youth Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Featuring:
Patrick Heppell, PsyD; Veronica Fellman, DO; and Suchet Rao, MD
Series:
Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminars
Relevant categories:
Behavioral Health Community Mental Health Trauma Informed Interventions
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Overview

Traumatic experiences and sleep disturbances are both common in children and adolescents. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar introduces how sleep-related issues and trauma responses share physiologic commonalities and thus interact with one another. 

Recorded on: 5/19/2021

  Keywords: adolescent, child, family, sleep disturbances
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Learning objectives

  • Explain the relationship between traumatic experiences, mental illness, and sleep
  • Describe ways to evaluate sleep disturbances in the context of trauma (and vice versa)
  • Discuss why it is important to treat sleep disturbances in the context of trauma (and vice versa)
  • List promising psychological and pharmacological treatments for sleep issues and trauma

Professional credit

  • This activity offers the following types of credit: APA
  • 1.0 CEs are available.

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