Deciding whether your child needs therapy is not a task to hand off to an AI.

Every child's situation is unique — the causes of nightmares range from stress and media exposure to trauma and sleep disorders, and the right response depends entirely on individual context. There is no repeatable structure an agent can reliably apply.

Success criteria are deeply subjective and clinically complex — 'is this serious enough for professional help?' has no crisp answer an agent can evaluate. The threshold depends on severity, duration, family context, and professional judgment.

The agent has no access to the child's behavior, emotional history, school environment, family dynamics, sleep patterns, or any observable clinical signals. It cannot observe, interview, or assess the child in any meaningful way.

Misdiagnosis could mean ignoring a trauma response that needs professional intervention, or unnecessarily alarming a family about normal developmental sleep disturbances. Either error affects a child's wellbeing and the family's trust in the process.

This task requires parental intuition, knowledge of the specific child, and ideally clinical expertise. The decision to seek professional help involves ethical responsibility, relationship context, and nuanced developmental knowledge that AI cannot replicate.