World-renowned contributors across several disciplines reveal how dreams can aid and empower children in daily life.

• Addresses how video games and today's news media can affect children's sleep/dreams and how trauma can trigger PTSD-like nightmares

• Details how children's dreams reflect their emotional and physical development

• Includes vignettes/case studies of children's nightmares from countries around the world, including a heavily war-torn country

• Explains what may trigger nightmares for children and how "monster" dreams can be guided to become "superhero" dreams

• Describes how children can interact with dreams by becoming lucid and by engaging in creative dreamplay

World-renowned contributors across several disciplines reveal how dreams can aid and empower children in daily life.

• Addresses how video games and today's news media can affect children's sleep/dreams and how trauma can trigger PTSD-like nightmares

• Details how children's dreams reflect their emotional and physical development

• Includes vignettes/case studies of children's nightmares from countries around the world, including a heavily war-torn country

• Explains what may trigger nightmares for children and how "monster" dreams can be guided to become "superhero" dreams

• Describes how children can interact with dreams by becoming lucid and by engaging in creative dreamplay

Sleep Monsters and Superheroes: Empowering Children Through Creative Dreamplay

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