Abstract
This review is based on a collection of literature encompassing sleep disturbances, potential emotional, behavioral, and academic impacts of sleep disturbances, and a variety of resources for identification, prevention, and intervention of sleep disturbances. This review brings awareness to sleep disorders and the many internal and external characteristics often seen among students who are suffering from a lack of sleep. In addition, this review shares strategies for working with adolescent students who are not getting the sleep they need. This literature review is the basis for development of a professional training session that helps educators understand the importance of sleep and feel prepared to intervene when an adolescent student is not receiving the sleep they need. The goal of the professional training session is to educate participants on the many, often overlooked, impacts of a lack of sleep and to teach them practical methods for promoting sleep hygiene on both systems and individual levels. These practical methods incorporate ideas and strategies from various therapeutic frameworks such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and general sleep-hygiene education programs. Recommendations for systems-level change are also provided. The professional training session provides participants opportunities to collaborate and discuss the presentation information and develop strategies for implementing these changes within the educational setting.