Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents (Sleep Disorders)

"Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides practical tools for the clinician for treating children, including guidelines to assess sleep, sleep questionnaires, and behavioral scales, making this a well-rounded resource, for not only sleep specialists, but psychiatrists, neurologists, and pediatricians as well."--BOOK JACKET. Content: 1. Sleep and Behavior in Children and Adolescents: A Multi-System, Developmental Heuristic Model / Dean W. Beebe -- 2. Normal Sleep Development in Infants and Toddlers / Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs -- 3. Behavioral Sleep Disorders in Infants and Toddlers / Melissa M. Burnham and Erika E. Gaylor -- 4. Sleep Practices and Habits in Children across Different Cultures / Flavia Giannotti, Flavia Cortesi, Teresa Sebastiani and Cristina Vagnoni -- 5. Links Between Family Functioning and Children's Sleep / Peggy S. Keller, Joseph A. Buckhalt and Mona El-Sheikh -- 6. Circadian Sleep Disorders and Comorbid Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents / Reut Gruber and Dana Sheshko Abstract: Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents Read more... The first book to offer an in-depth study of the relationship between sleep disorders and common psychiatric disorders in children, this new addition to Informa‘s Sleep Disorders series covers: sleep and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, anxiety, and depressionsleep disorders and obesity (including diabetes and metabolic syndrome),