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Children Sleep: What Stress can Bring in Later Life to Children Sleeping Alone Alexandra Jacobs-Chaboya PSY492 XA: Advanced General Psychology Professor Viventi August 15, 2011

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Effects of CIO

High Stress Levels

Pain

Distress

Hopelessness

Giving up

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Using Fear to Sleep

Silent Stress

Development of phobias (Elliot, 2010)

Less sleep

Increased Clinging

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Parent’s Stress and Sleep

Anger

Becoming overly tired

Pain

Low Self Steam

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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

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Benefits of Managing Time

Longer Sleep

Easier to Breastfeed at night

Bonding between parent and child

Increase of child independence

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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.

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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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