Course Description:
Proper sleep duration and architecture in juvenile and teenage patients are vital for neuronal growth, brain maturity, success in schoolwork, and social maturity. Measures to maximize teenage sleep include sleep quality, sleep timing, and sleep schedule regularity. The same healthy sleep parameters that are important for adults are essential for adolescents but affect them in different ways. Today’s adolescents sleep less than those of previous generations, with a historical decline over 30 years. The National Sleep Foundation and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommend a sleep length of 8–10 hours for teenagers. 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. • The relationship between sleep and obesity. • The risk of insulin resistance and diabetes. 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.
Sponsor:
Institute for Natural Resources
CE Credits: 3
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