Behavioural sleep treatments and night time crying in infants: Challenging the status quo

Sleep Medicine Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 327-334

  Blunden, Sarah L ^a   Thompson, Kirrilly R ^a   Dawson, Drew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural sleep treatments; Co sleeping; Controlled crying; Extinction; Infant sleep

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; NIGHT SLEEP; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP THERAPY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CRYING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 80051595341     PISSN: 10870792     EISSN: 15322955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2010.11.002     Document Type: Review

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