Sleep Disorder

The clinical definition of a sleeping disorder is a disruptive pattern of sleep that may include difficulty falling or staying asleep, falling asleep at inappropriate times, excessive total sleep time, or abnormal behaviors associated with sleep. There are over 100 different sleeping/waking disorders have been identified and for every one there is a different causation.

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Sleep Disorder News Articles

• Hooked on Pills: What Parents Need to Know About Prescription and OTC Drug Abuse

  An Interview with Arianne Power, CD Counselor, By Meghan Vivo
  
  Arianne Powell, a chemical dependency counselor at SageWalk the Wilderness School, has some strong advice for parents of adolescents: “More teens than ever before are abusing prescription and over-the-counter drugs. It’s time to take precautions in your own home. You could be providing your children with something that could kill them.” Read Full Article »

• Do You Feel Me?

  By Lana M. Ackaway, LCSW-R, NCPsyAv
  
  Punitive superego is often found within addiction and within borderline. It produces not only self-criticism, but also acts as a censorship over what is felt to be unacceptable thoughts and feelings—a resistance that offers a protection against shame and humiliation. Read Full Article »

• The Future of Teen Addiction Treatment--Trends and Predictions from Jeff Nalin, Psy.D.

  By Meghan Vivo
  
  In this article, Jeff Nalin, Psy.D., co-founder and executive director of Echo Malibu, an innovative residential treatment program for adolescents in Malibu, California, weighs in on the trends in teen-focused substance abuse treatment programs and makes predictions about what changes we can anticipate in the years ahead. Read Full Article »

• Methamphetamine: Highly Addictive and Highly Dangerous

  Methamphetamine--known by such slang names as speed, meth, chalk, ice, crystal, crank, glass, and uppers--is a highly addictive and ultimately dangerous stimulant. Whatever the excuse to use meth, or whatever the perceived short-term attraction to the drug may be, meth use is predictably physically, emotionally and mentally destructive. Read Full Article »

• Beating Addiction: Help for Teen Girls

  An Interview with Laurie Wilmot, LCSW—By Meghan Vivo
  
  At an age when most kids are breaking away from their parents, exploring their career interests, and establishing lifelong bonds with friends and partners, teens who are addicted to drugs or alcohol face an entirely different challenge just to get back to normal adolescent life. Read Full Article »

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