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This powerpoint is a research based on what effects does stress hold from childhood sleep in later years. (Please download the slide show, I have notes on each slide explaining the bullets)
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Children Sleep:What Stress can Bring in Later Life to
Children Sleeping Alone
Alexandra Jacobs-ChaboyaPSY492 XA: Advanced General Psychology
Professor ViventiAugust 15, 2011
Abstract
Children depend on adults to regulate their own levels of stress and other uncomfortable emotions that may come as they grow. These emotions are anger, anxiety, and fear, amongst others that for a young child can be taunting to control. They depend on their parents to level their own emotions and to learn how to regulate stress due to their fears, anxieties and angers. Taking this into account training a child to sleep on their own can come with major consequences later in life if done sudden. Using tactics that include punishment, yelling or scaring them into staying in their own room is something that can increase their stress level that correlates with mental health problems later in life.
Key Points
Literature Review:
Letting a Child CIO
Using Fear as a Reason to Stay in Bed
Stress in Parents and Children alike During Sleep
Discussion:
Consequences in later Life
Benefits of Slowing Down to get a child in his or her own Bed.
What is CIO?
CIO stands for “Cry it Out”
• A method used by parents to teach children to sleep alone.
• Children being taught to sleep are ignored as they cry out for attention during the night.
• Usually used at an early age in the child’s life.
The Effects of CIO
High Stress Levels
Pain
Distress
Hopelessness
Giving up
Using Fear to Sleep
Silent Stress
Development of phobias (Elliot, 2010)
Less sleep
Increased Clinging
Parent’s Stress and Sleep
Anger
Becoming overly tired
Pain
Low Self Steam
Adolescence and Adult Life
• There is a strong correlation between Mental health problems and stress at young ages (Sunderland, 2006).
• Phobias, decrease of Social Interaction
Benefits of Managing Time
Longer Sleep
Easier to Breastfeed at night
Bonding between parent and child
Increase of child independence
Conclusion
There are better ways to manage discipline in children.
Learning is the first step to helping a child become a healthy adult.
Parents need to learn at what point the child has the mental capacity to deal with levels of stress.
References
Meijer, Anne M. (2007). First time parents. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 49-57.
Elliot, Kevin C. (2010). On “Crying-it-out and co-sleeping, Wiley-Blackwell, Pg 141
Aanes, M . (2010). Does loneliness mediate the stress-sleep quality relation? The Hordaland Health Study. International Psycho Geriatrics, Vol 23(6), Pg 994-1002.
Behrens, Kazuko Y. (2007) Mothers' attachment status as determined by the Adult Attachment Interview predicts their 6-year-olds' reunion responses: A study conducted in Japan. Developmental Psychology, Vol 23(6), Pg 1553-1567
Sunderland M. Panksepp J. (2006). The Science of Parenting, DK Publishing. Retrieved July 19, 2011 from http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/sleep.html
Wolfe, David A. (2006) Behavioral and Emotional Disorder in Adolescents: Nature, Assessment, and Treatment, The Guildford Press, New York
Lonigan, C.J. (2003) Relations of Positive and Negative Affectivity to Anxiety and Depression in Children: Evidence from Latent Variable Longitudinal Study, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol 71(3) Pg 465-481
Bandura, A. (1957). Review of Case Studies in Childhood Emotional Disabilities, Contemporary Psychology, Vol. 2 Pg 14-15.
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