Our Two-day In-depth Sleep Workshop (6 months to 6 years)

Description

This comprehensive two-day sleep workshop provides healthcare professionals with an understanding of a wide range of common childhood sleep difficulties and sleep disorders . We explore up-to-date evidence and science based strategies to enable participants to support families struggling with their with pre-school children and for children with SEND.

Throughout the two days we use real-life case studies enabling delegates to assess and plan gentle and responsive interventions for a range of child sleep problems and sleep disorders.

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 problems. Child focused and firmly grounded in research and evidence-based practice our training follows the Baby Friendly Initiative.

This two-day workshop is accredited for 12 CPD Hours by The CPD Certification Service; “This is a good course delivering clear learning value. It has a well-written and engaging presentation and a variety of activities and tasks to aid interactivity and learner engagement.”

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 infants and children.
• To provide an overview of evidence based interventions used to help behavioural sleep difficulties in infants and children.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this two-day course participants will be able to:

• Understand the science of sleep, sleep hygiene and sleep needs
• Understand common sleep difficulties
• Gain an understanding of a range of common sleep interventions used to help behavioural sleep difficulties in children
• Understand how to undertake a sleep assessment, incorporating a sleep history and the use of a sleep diary
• Understand common paediatric disorders that may impact sleep
• Provide anticipatory sleep advice and interventions to parents
• Modify a sleep programme to suit an individual family’s needs and support the family’s capacity to change