Our One-Day Sleep Awareness Workshop (6 months to 6 years)

Description

Our one-day sleep workshop aims to provide healthcare professionals with evidence based knowledge to develop their theoretical and practical understanding of how to assess and manage sleep difficulties in pre-school children.

It is an opportunity for you to enhance your sleep knowledge, add skills to your current professional tool box and feel confident in supporting young families with sleep.

We have developed the workshop content and delivery to be highly engaging, interactive and relevant to all community staff working with families with young children experiencing sleep issues.

Child focused, gentle, responsive and firmly grounded in research and evidence-based practice our training follows the Baby Friendly Initiative. The content will focus on practical evidence based issues relating to sleep assessment and identify interventions to guide and support parents and carers.

This one-day workshop is accredited for 6 CPD Hours by The CPD Certification Service; “This is a good course delivering clear learning value.”

Workshop Aims

• To provide community staff with up-to-date evidence based knowledge to develop their theoretical and practical understanding of sleep needs; sleep patterns; sleep cycles and common difficulties.
• To support community staff to enhance their confidence, skills and knowledge base in providing guidance to parents regarding sleep difficulties in pre school children.
• To provide an overview of evidence based gentle and responsive interventions used to help sleep difficulties in young children.

Workshop Outcomes

• With the use of assessment tools – by the end of the day delegates will be able to:
• Understand typical sleep regulations, sleep needs and sleep cycles.
• Understand common sleep difficulties.
• Provide education to families on establishing good sleep hygiene, and provide anticipatory advice in the prevention of sleep difficulties.
• Understand how to undertake a sleep assessment for an infant and child, incorporating a sleep history and the use of a sleep diary.
• Gain an understanding of common sleep interventions used to help behavioural sleep difficulties in pre school children.