Sleep Problems: Assessment, Diagnosis, Treatment
Offered by the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Women & Infants Hospital, and Brown University Office of Continuing Education
Instructor(s): Kristen C. Stone and Jean Twomey
Location: Brown University
Dates: June 22-26, 2009
Meeting Times: 9:00am – 12 noon
Fee: $800
Application Due Date: May 29, 2009
Description: This course will focus on research and clinical issues related to pediatric sleep problems. Students will gain information on normative infant, child, and adolescent sleep patterns; identify pediatric sleep problems, including their impact on child and parental functioning; and discuss treatment strategies.
Who should attend: Clinicians including, but not limited to, physicians, social workers, licensed nurses who are interested in sleep problems
Course Objectives: At the completion of the course participants will be able to:
- Discuss pediatric sleep problems, including types, terminology, and relevant clinical and research considerations.
- Identify normative infant and child sleep patterns and gain an increased understanding of the impact of sleep problems on child and parental functioning.
- Analyze strategies to treat pediatric sleep problems and to promote more optimal child sleep habits.
- Develop treatment plans for behavioral sleep issues in families with children and adolescents.
Teaching strategies:
Lecture, discussion, outside reading, role play, projects, and observation of clinical cases.
Evaluation: Participation in class discussion, quizzes, role plays, and projects
Instructor Bio(s): Dr. Kristen Stone received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with subspecialties in behavioral medicine and public health, from The University of Memphis, in 2007. Kristen’s research focuses on the causal relationships between sleep problems and addiction. Her current research focuses on 1) sleeping difficulties in children and adolescents with prenatal drug exposure and 2) the role of sleep in relapse to drugs and alcohol. Kristen has treated individuals across the lifespan with insomnia and other sleep disorders for six years. She also treats individuals, couples, and families with psychological problems stemming from health conditions, addiction, and other life events. Kristen has taught courses including personality theory, statistics, introduction to psychology, introduction to clinical psychology, and behavioral medicine.
Jean Twomey, MSW, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior and Pediatrics (Research) at Brown University, Alpert Medical School. Her research interests include parenting abilities of substance-using women, developmental outcomes of substance-exposed infants with child welfare involvement, long-term outcomes of families who participated in the RI Family Treatment Drug Court, and the impact of infant behavioral difficulties on parental mental health and family functioning. She is a child and family therapist who provides clinical services at the Brown Center for the Study of Children in the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Clinic, and Behavior and Development Clinic. Her clinical interests include disorders of infancy and early childhood, colic, parent-infant relationships, and the role of fathers in families affected by perinatal substance use.