Overview
Examines use of functional behavior assessment (FBA) to treat sleep problems in children with ASD
Describes effects on children and families of successful interventions with sleep
Discusses physiological, environmental, cognitive etiologies of sleep problems in children with ASD
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This handbook provides an overview of the nature, prevalence, and causes of sleep problems in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and examines the process of using functional behavior assessment (FBA) to treat sleep disorders. It describes several evidence-based treatments and explores how these align with the outcomes of the FBA process, including case illustrations of the assessment and treatment process. The handbook discusses the application of FBA in family contexts, including:
- The effects on children and families of successful interventions with sleep.
- How to conduct FBA with clinically complex families.
- Including the child in the intervention.
- The evidence of efficacy of other treatment approaches.
The handbook addresses sleep problems that are highly prevalent among children and young people with ASD, including sleep onset delay, frequent and prolonged night waking, and unwanted co-sleeping. It explores the profound secondary effects that sleep problems may have on children’s daytime functioning as well as child and parent health and wellbeing. The handbook discusses the causes of sleep problems in individuals with ASD, which may be multifaceted and complex and include physiological, environmental, cognitive etiologies yet almost always have a behavioral or learned component. It examines how FBA can be used to characterize challenging behaviors and identify the antecedents (e.g., environmental context) and consequences that affect such behaviors. The volume details the process of using FBA to assess and treat sleep problems in children with ASD.
Clinical Handbook of Behavioural Sleep Treatment in Autism is a must-have resource for clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in clinical child and school psychology, behavioral therapy, social work, public health, developmental psychology, pediatrics, family studies, and child and adolescent psychiatry.
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Keywords
- Antecedent variable and sleep disorders in children
- Autism spectrum disorder and children with sleep disorders
- Bedtime fading and bedtime fading with response-cost
- Behavioral disorders, sleep, and children with autism
- Challenging behaviors and children with autism
- Children with autism, sleep problems, FBA
- Developmental disabilities and sleep problems
- Function- versus nonfunction-based sleep interventions
- Functional Behavioral Assessment and sleep problems
- Insomnia, parasomnia, and children with ASD
- Medical conditions and sleep disorders in children
- Melatonin and other pharmaceutical approaches to sleep
- Parental presence/camping out procedures and sleep
- Sleep hygiene and children with autism
- Sleep interfering behaviors and children with ASD
- Sleep onset and maintenance in children with autism
- Stereotypy, repetitive behaviors, and childhood sleep problems
- Stimulus substitutions and children’s sleep disturbance
- Visual supports, social stories, video modeling and sleep
- White noise, auditory stimulation, and sleep
Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Professional Knowledge and Resources Needed to Work with Families
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Overview of FBA and Treatment Processes
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Antecedent Interventions
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Treatment of Sleep Problems in Children on the Autism Spectrum: Consequence-Based Interventions
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Other Aspects of Treatment
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Laurie K McLay, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Canterbury. Dr. McLay has more than 15 years of experience working with children with autism and their families throughout the world. She has extensive knowledge of the process of assessing and treating sleep problems in children with autism and has conducted many years of research in this area.
Karyn G France, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and a Clinical Psychologist with decades of experience conducting research into treatments for sleep problems in infants, young children, and children with autism. Her research interests include development of sleep in infancy and childhood, child and family interventions, emotional and behavioral regulation in children, and parent behavior and education.
Neville M Blampied, Ph.D., has more than 30 years of experience researching interventions for infant sleep disorders and is an internationally recognized expert in single-case research designs and the analysis of data, especially in the use of the Reliable Change Index and the integration of effect-size information into the assessment of therapy outcomes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Clinical Handbook of Behavioral Sleep Treatment in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Editors: Laurie K McLay, Karyn G France, Neville M Blampied
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99134-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99133-3Published: 05 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99136-4Published: 06 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99134-0Published: 28 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Behavioral Therapy, Social Work