Where Parents Talk podcast host Lianne Castelino speaks to Heather Turgeon, psychotherapist Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, author and mom about fostering healthy sleep habits in teens.
HEATHER TURGEON
Psychotherapist
Registered Marriage and Family Therapist
Sleep specialist
Author, Generation Sleepless: Why Tweens and Teens Aren’t Sleeping Enough and How We Can Help Them
Mother of 2
“The teens are really the ones who need our help the most. They turn out to be the most sleep deprived segment of the population. They’re the most sleep deprived of any generation in history. In human history, there’s never been a group of individuals as sleep deprived as today’s teenagers, and overlapping with that, what we’re seeing in terms of the mental health issues that have been so widely discussed, those two trends are highly connected, extremely interconnected.”