Sleep disorders in children and adolescents with learning disabilities and their management

Sleep disorders are extremely common in children and young people, and even more so in those with developmental disabilities. This client subgroup may prove refractory to standard behavioural and other psychosocial interventions that usually help and it is frequent for clinicians to resort to medica...

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Published in:Advances in mental health and intellectual disabilities 2010-03, Vol.4 (1), p.50-59
Main Author: Turk, Jeremy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Childhood
Intellectual disabilities
Learning disability
Sleep
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Summary:Sleep disorders are extremely common in children and young people, and even more so in those with developmental disabilities. This client subgroup may prove refractory to standard behavioural and other psychosocial interventions that usually help and it is frequent for clinicians to resort to medication approaches given the high levels of personal and family distress that result. There is a need not only for further well structured research in this field but also for efforts to tackle the frequent relative neglect by clinicians of more researched and considered approaches. This review examines these issues selectively, focusing on important clinical issues and predicaments, and attempts a start at an evidence-based background for practical and rational prescribing in this area of common childhood psychopathology.
ISSN:1753-0180
2044-1282
2044-1290
DOI:10.5042/amhld.2010.0059