Health and Wellbeing
What Teens Need to Know about Sleep and How to Teach Them
Teenagers are more likely to change their sleep habits when they understand the science and see what's in it for them.
- 43 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Explain how body clocks, melatonin and sleep drive change in the teenage years
- Link sleep to a young person's own interests, like sport or exams
- Help a teenager set a small, specific sleep goal and stick to it
- Suggest a wind-down hour, regular wake times and a calmer bedroom
- Recognise when a sleep problem needs a GP or specialist support
About this course
Telling a yawning teenager to go to bed earlier rarely works. Their body clock shifts later in adolescence, and a lie-in until lunchtime makes the next night harder. Young people also say they want to know why rather than simply being told to put the phone away.
Two people from a UK sleep charity, one of them a former teacher, give you the basics to pass on: sleep cycles, melatonin, sleep drive and why a nap after school backfires. You'll learn to frame sleep positively, linking it to sport, exams or whatever motivates that young person, and to help them set one small SMART sleep goal and stick with it for two weeks. The Teen Sleep Hub, a free resource made with teenagers, gives you more to share.
You'll also know when a sleep problem needs more than tips, and it's time to involve a GP.
- For governors. Post-16 and secondary.
Recording
- 44 min
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