Technology can have a significant impact on sleep and circadian rhythms, yet it also presents opportunities to improve the delivery of evidence-based treatments for sleep disorders. Drs. Ong, Meltzer, and Thorndike will focus on three topics that highlight the interplay between technology and sleep: 1) What should clinicians know about consumer sleep tracking devices? 2) How should clinicians approach the use of technology at bedtime for children and adolescents? 3) Can the emergence of digital therapeutics enhance the delivery of cognitive-behavior therapy for insomnia? Their discussion will incorporate historical, scientific, and practical perspectives on these topics.

When individuals and their loved ones face a diagnosis of dementia, they are usually unaware that it is a long-term life-limiting illness that gradually robs the patient of the ability to live and function independently. The emotional, physical, and financial demands on unpaid caregivers are chronic and escalating, posing a health threat for the caregiver as well as the patient. Facilitating critical windows of opportunity at diagnosis can make a difference in the long-term coping of those affected by dementia. Helping clients understand the nature of dementia and the typical course of the illness, psychologists can also plant seeds for examination of life values, planning for late-life complications, and communication with loved ones about end-of-life preferences.

Informed by a growing line of research giving voice to lived experience perspectives, the current webinar will articulate a person-centered approach with which to understand self-injury. This will involve recommendations for building rapport with clients and ways to ask about their experiences with self-injury. Also presented will be a novel person-centered framework of self-injury recovery. Components from this framework will be discussed with attention to how they can be woven into one’s work. In doing so, webinar attendees will be better positioned to foster recovery when working alongside clients who self-injure.