Modern Psychology, and Why We Sometimes Suffer from Sleep Problems

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Michelle Mullaley, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, discusses sleep issues, psychology, child psychology, and the techniques and tools she utilizes to help people at her clinic.

Jump in now to learn about:

Do kids have different sleep problems than adults?
Can ADHD impact sleep?
Which cognitive tools can help with calming, relaxation, and anxiety relief?

Dr. Mullaley specializes in child and family psychology. She earned her doctorate at Catholic University in Washington, DC. Dr. Mullaley discusses her background and current focus. As an active researcher, Dr. Mullaley does a lot of testing in addition to her regular schedule of therapy.

Dr. Mullaley talks about sleep problems, specifically sleep deprivation that kids and teens struggle with. As she states, falling asleep can be difficult for some, especially in kids who have ADHD. She provides a wealth of information on circadian rhythms and how they can shift through our lives.

As a result of this shifting, some teens tend to feel very awake even late at night, but when they have to get up early to get to school, their bodies feel sleep deprived because they are craving that full nine hours of relaxing sleep but aren't getting it.

Dr. Mullaley discusses cases she deals with, in regard to sleep problems and issues. She discusses multiple techniques and treatments—including cognitive challenging, which is a cognitive behavior technique used to bring on calming and relief from anxiety.

Continuing, Dr. Mullaley discusses breathing, yoga, various imagery techniques, and even some apps that can help kids, and adults, to relax and calm themselves, which can assist with falling asleep, and getting better sleep. Further she talks about melatonin and how it can play a role in sleep and why we have different issues as we get older.

Wrapping up, she talks about the impact of technology, and how smartphones are one thing we should detach ourselves from when we want to fall asleep, and get quality sleep.

Learn more about Dr. Mullaley and her work by visiting Bridges Therapy and Wellness Center .

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C

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0:00.0	But in particular, kind of from a general perspective, kids struggle with falling asleep well,
0:04.8	especially kids who have sleep disorders or who have ADHD, which is a 10-inch and deficit
0:09.5	hyperactivity disorder. And then there's some societal aspects to that too, I think,
0:14.5	school and sleep do not always go well together, because as kids are aging through puberty and
0:20.3	teen years, their circadian rhythms shifts a bit to whether or not it's tired until later,
0:24.8	which is normal in natural and why they don't want to go to sleep until sometimes 10 or 11 p.m.
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1:09.4	Finding Genius Podcast. This is the Health Medicine and Pilot Science Edition.
1:13.2	They have Dr. Michelle Lout. She's an doctorate in clinical psychology,
1:17.5	emphasis in child and family psychology at the Catholic University of America, Washington,
1:24.0	which is working in the mental health field. If I say anyone, I'll begin again with
1:29.2	fall. Children's mental health. So we're going to talk about that. So the morale of Christian
1:33.7	Gully. How are you doing? Great. Thanks so much for having me.
1:37.6	You work with us. You're interested in working in the field you're in. What's your recent
1:42.8	focus? Where is it all that? 23 years? Right. So I became interested long ago in working with
1:50.3	children and I've kind of navigated through adolescence and now also work with adults.
1:55.5	One of the things I see a lot is I do a lot of psychological testing in addition to therapy,
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