Sleep management--the hidden agenda.
The management of apparent sleep problems is often not straight-forward because of a proportion of clients attending with a 'hidden agenda', requiring more in-depth long-term treatment for psychological problems. This paper looks at a sample of 100 consecutive referrals to a community sleep clinic in the East End of London and attempts to address the question of who comes to the sleep clinic and why. A proportion of clients responded to brief intervention of a behavioural nature but 19% were referred on to other services for psycho-therapeutic help.
Department of Family and Child Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London, UK.
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