Professor Sarah Blunden is a qualified Clinical Psychologist with qualifications in the following areas:

• Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) from the University of South Australia (1996)
• Master of Social Science (Counselling) from the University of South Australia (1998)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Psychology (Clinical) from the University of South Australia (2003)
• Master of Clinical Psychology equivalence awarded from the University of South Australia (2008)
• A registered Clinical Psychology Supervisor with the Psychology Board of Australia
• Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Central Queensland University (CQU)
• Adjunct Head of Paediatric Sleep Research at the Appleton Institute of Behavioural Science, CQU
• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University

Sarah has been passionate about children’s sleep since she undertook her PhD in 2000. In 2004 she founded the Paediatric Sleep and Psychology Clinic to assist families with their children’s sleep concerns, and in 2006 founded the Australian Centre for Education in Sleep to educate communities about sleep problems. In 2017 Professor Blunden developed a Practice Certificate in her Gentle Methods of Self Settling (GeMSS) for health professionals. Sarah believes that all families and communities deserve to be better educated about sleep, as sleep is the foundation of all physical and mental health.

Her main areas of interest are infant sleep and sleep interventions that do not necessitate ignoring nor controlled crying, sleep education in schools and communities, and Indigenous Sleep Health.

She has presented over 100 presentations to health, education, medical professional and academics and has published over 120 academic papers in peer reviewed journals including the Sensible Sleep Solution and the Boss of My Sleep Book.

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