Course 5 – Improving Adolescent Sleep: From Terrible To terrific
Improving Adolescent Sleep: From Terrible To terrific
This new webinar will discuss the following topics:
- The difference between adult and adolescent circadian rhythms.
- Adolescent stages of sleep.
- The importance of safeguarding normal sleep-wake cycles in adolescents.
- The implications of insufficient sleep and health-risk behaviors.
- The consequences of fragmented adolescent sleep: behavior, school, and addiction.
- Adolescent insomnia and parasomnia.
- Adolescent sleep education – Home-based sleep manipulation interventions.
- How caffeine, nicotine, and cannabis affect sleep.
- How ADHD medications effect sleep.
- How electronic media effects sleep.
- Adolescent interrupted sleep and obesity.
- Disrupted meal timing and increases in sedentary behavior.
This new webinar will deeply explore the psychological and physical issues that come with insufficient sleep in adolescence. It will also discuss interventions and protocols to correct and improve juvenile and adolescent sleep.
This course offers 4- CE credit hours for the following professions:
NURSES, DENTAL PROFESSIONALS, PHARMACISTS, REGISTERED DIETITIANS & DTRs, PSYCHOLOGISTS, MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS & ADDICTION COUNSELORS, MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS & OTAs, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS & PTAs, CASE MANAGERS, NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS (Distance Learning), MASSAGE THERAPISTS.