OCPA Workshop - Assessment and Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders - Katharine Simon, Ph.D.

Course Description

This course introduces psychologists to the assessment and brief intervention of pediatric sleep disorders across development. Participants will learn about common sleep problems that emerge at different developmental stages, evidence-based approaches to sleep assessment, and developmentally tailored intervention strategies. The course also provides an introduction to cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and discusses adaptations for delivering sleep interventions to youth with neurodevelopmental disorders. Emphasis is placed on practical, clinically applicable strategies for working with pediatric patients and their families.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe normative sleep development in three developmental phases, infancy,

childhood, and adolescence.

2. Identify two common pediatric sleep problems across developmental stages.

3. Describe three evidence-based assessment tools and two brief interventions for

pediatric sleep concerns in clinical practice.

2 hour C.E. Timeline

10:00-10:20 Introduction to Sleep Basics

10:20-10:40 Assessment and Intervention for Sleep Problems in Infancy/Toddlerhood

10:40-10:50 Assessment and Intervention for Sleep Problems in

Childhood/Adolescence

10:50-11:20 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I): Principles and

Applications

11:20-11:45 Assessment and Intervention for Sleep Problems in Youth with

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

11:45-12:00 Questions and Answers

Biography

Katharine Simon is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the UCI School of Medicine and the Assistant Director of Research in Pediatric Sleep at the Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). She is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialties in pediatric health and behavioral sleep medicine. She obtained her BA at UC Berkeley and her PhD in both clinical psychology and cognition & neural systems at the University of Arizona. She is the lead faculty trainer for Pediatric Sleep at the Train New Trainers Program in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine.

Simon's current research spans the mechanisms underlying sleep, memory, and mental health across development in healthy and patient populations, memory modification and the development of new sleep-based interventions. Her work is currently funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the CHOC.

Fees

CPA/OCPA Members: $50.00

Non-Members: $65.00

Students: $25.00

“CPA is co-sponsoring with Orange County Psychological Association. The California Psychological Association (CPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPA maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Important Notice: Those who attend the workshop will receive (2) continuing education credits. Please note that APA CE rules require that we give credit only to those who attend the entire workshop. Those arriving more than 15 minutes after the start time or leaving before the workshop is completed will not receive CE credits.”

For more information contact Rosalyn Laudati, Ph.D., at [email protected].

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