SLEEP DISORDERS - INTRODUCTION - SLEEP AND CHILD-PSYCHIATRY

Understanding the regulation and disorders of sleep has enormous relev ance to clinicians facing child and adolescent behavioral or emotional problems. This interface between sleep and child psychiatry encompass es a wide range of pragmatic as well as theoretic issues including dia gnosis, treatment, etiology, and prevention. The conceptual and empiri c support for these statements are discussed in the context of the art icles in this issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of Nor th America.