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Book SynopsisThe growing multidisciplinary literature on sleep and development needs to be integrated to yield organizing principles and conceptual frameworks researchers can use to defi ne and measure key constructs. This Monograph has three major aims: to present contemporary conceptual and methodological issues that need to be considered to integrate knowledge of sleep and child development across multiple disciplines, and accelerate the pace and enhance the quality of research (Chapter II); to discuss various sleep methodologies including their advantages and disadvantages (Chapter III); and to provide examples of longitudinal studies, which are needed in this developing area of inquiry, that demonstrate linkages between various sleep parameters and child development across multiple domains (Chapters IV through X). Chapter I introduces the main objectives of the volume, highlights the importance of sleep for child development, and presents a guiding framework for understanding the multiple i
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT vii
I. SLEEP AND DEVELOPMENT: INTRODUCTION TO THE MONOGRAPH
Mona El-Sheikh and Avi Sadeh 1
II. MOVING SLEEP AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FORWARD: PRIORITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SRCD-SPONSORED FORUM ON SLEEP AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Mona El-Sheikh and Joseph A. Buckhalt 15
III. SLEEP ASSESSMENT METHODS
Avi Sadeh 33
IV. REACTIVITY AND SLEEP IN INFANTS: A LONGITUDINAL OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
Gali S. De Marcas, Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Shaul Dollberg, Yair Bar-Haim, and Avi Sadeh 49
V. SLEEP AS A MIRROR OF DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS IN INFANCY: THE CASE OF CRAWLING A
nat Scher and Dina Cohen 70
VI. MARITAL CONFLICT, VAGAL REGULATION, AND CHILDREN'S SLEEP: A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION
Mona El-Sheikh, J. Benjamin Hinnant, and Stephen A. Erath 89
VII. INFANT SLEEP DEVELOPMENT FROM 3 TO 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM: LINKS WITH MATERNAL SLEEP AND PATERNAL INVOLVEMENT
Liat Tikotzky, Avi Sadeh, Ella Volkovich, Rachel Manber, Gal Meiri, and Golan Shahar 107
VIII. ATTACHMENT AND SLEEP AMONG TODDLERS: DISENTANGLING ATTACHMENT SECURITY AND DEPENDENCY Marie-Ève Bélanger, Annie Bernier, Valérie Simard, Stéphanie Bordeleau, and Julie Carrier 125
IX. BEDTIME ROUTINES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD: PREVALENCE, CONSISTENCY, AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH NIGHTTIME SLEEP
Angela D. Staples, John E.Bates, and Isaac T. Petersen 141
X. MARITAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT IN MOTHERS AND INFANT SLEEP ARRANGEMENTS DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS
Douglas M. Teti, Brian Crosby, Brandon T. McDaniel, Mina Shimizu, and Corey J. Whitesell 160
XI. SLEEP AND DEVELOPMENT: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Avi Sadeh and Mona El-Sheikh 177
COMMENTARY
ON SLEEP AND DEVELOPMENT: RECENT ADVANCES AND FUTUR DIRECTIONS
Angela F.Lukowski 182
CONTRIBUTORS 196
STATEMENT OF EDITORIAL POLICY 201
SUBJECT INDEX 203
