Sleep disorders in children and adolescents with learning disabilities and their management
Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
ISSN: 1753-0180
Article publication date: 15 March 2010
Abstract
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.
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Citation
Turk, J. (2010), "Sleep disorders in children and adolescents with learning disabilities and their management", Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 50-59. https://doi.org/10.5042/amhld.2010.0059
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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