Treatment is based on the psychological principles of learning and acquiring habits .

The professional literature (ICSD) The International Classification of Sleep Disorders defines children's behavioral sleep problems as problems that consist of one of the following two aspects (or both):
1) Sleep Onset Association Disorder - The child associates Temporary, rather then permanent, environmental ques to sleep. Meaning that these stimuli  are not available to him  or her continuously and regularly throughout the night.
(For example: a child who falls asleep  in the arms of his or her parent, and is moved to the crib right after falling alseep.)

Through therapy we change the child's sleep association : the child gets  associate falling-asleep to the stimuli available to him throughout the night (the child learns to fall asleep under the same conditions in which he stays  all night, for example, in his crib). The change is made from the first night in a one-step and non-gradual process - when the parents receive guidance on how to encourage the boy or girl to relax and fall asleep independently while providing a constant response. The process is also called controlled controlled comforting encouragement of independent Sleep. This process is recommended by the American Pediatric Association (AAP) as the most effective and safe way to train sleep.
2) Limit Setting Disorder - A problem with setting boundaries. The child refuses to go to bed as part of an array of border checks and control struggles with the parents. This is reflected in the child's constant attempts to contact his parents after bedtime: various requests, leaving the room after the lights are turned off, or insisting that one of the parents stay with him until he falls asleep in his room. Through therapy we learn how to deal with setting boundaries for a child, not before analyzing the possible causes of his behavior: trying to gain quality time with a parent, fears, dealing with diaper or pacifier weaning, entering a new frame, and sometimes too early bedtime ....

In any case, the process of change is built on constant reference to the child while conveying two clear messages: one - there is constant parental supervision, the parent responds to the child and his needs and the other - a reassuring message that everything is fine, everything is under control, and the child is safe.