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Sleep management — the hidden agenda
Author(s) -
WALTERS JENNIFER
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1993.tb00726.x
Subject(s) - sleep (system call) , intervention (counseling) , psychology , sample (material) , medicine , psychiatry , applied psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , chemistry , chromatography , operating system
Summary The management of apparent sleep problems is often not straight‐forward because of a proportion of clients attending with a ‘hidden agenda’, requiring more in‐depth long‐term treatment for psychological problems. This paper looks at a sample of 100 consecutive referrals to a community sleep clinic in the East End of London and attempts to address the question of who comes to the sleep clinic and why. A proportion of clients responded to brief intervention of a behavioural nature but 19% were referred on to other services for psycho‐therapeutic help.