Sleep disorders - Introduction - Sleep and child psychiatry

Understanding the regulation and disorders of sleep has enormous relevance to clinicians facing child and adolescent behavioral or emotional problems. This interface between sleep and child psychiatry encompasses a wide range of pragmatic as well as theoretic issues including diagnosis, treatment, etiology, and prevention. The conceptual and empiric support for these statements are discussed in the context of the articles in this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America.