[A Child's Sleep: A Book with Seven Seals? A Guide to Systematic Problem Identification and Solution]

A Child's Sleep: A Book with Seven Seals? A Guide to Systematic Problem Identification and Solution Abstract. The sleep of a child can be influenced and sometimes disturbed by many, often development-associated, phenomena. This results not only in a burden for the child, but regularly also for the parents, who in their need for help, often seek the advice of the attending physician. The child- and adolescent-specific questionnaire BEARS, which was developed by J. Owens and K. Mindell, allows the first diagnostic steps and classifications based on the most important symptoms such as bedtime problems, excessive daytime sleepiness, waking up at night, problems with regularity and sleep duration as well as nocturnal breathing disorders. The aim of this article is to show that important conclusions can be drawn in the everyday practice as to which symptoms need to be clarified how and how urgently, and which belong in the hands of a specialized sleep center.