Let's help parents help themselves: A letter to the editor supporting the safety of behavioural sleep techniques

Early Human Development

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-40

  Price, Anna ^a   Hiscock, Harriet ^b   Gradisar, Michael ^c  

^a MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour therapy; Cortisol; Mental health; Sleep disorders; Stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

CHILD SAFETY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HEALTH; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL MEDIA;

CRYING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SLEEP;

EID: 84870774713     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2012.07.018     Document Type: Letter

References (15)

1. Middlemiss W., Granger D.A., Goldberg W.A., Nathans L. Asynchrony of mother-infant hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity following extinction of infant crying responses induced during the transition to sleep. Early Hum Dev 2012, 88:227-232.
2. Blunden S.L., Thompson K.R., Dawson D. Behavioural sleep treatments and night time crying in infants: challenging the status quo. Sleep Med Rev 2011, 15:327-334.
3. Sadeh A., Mindell J.A., Owens J. Why care about sleep of infants and their parents?. Sleep Med Rev 2011, 15:335-337.
4. Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Inc position paper 1: controlled crying Published November 2002, last updated March 2004. http://www.aaimhi.org/inewsfiles/controlled_crying.pdf.
5. For example: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/highly-stressed-crybabies/story-fn7x8me2-1226366120389; http://www.mom365.com/Baby/Posts/2012/May/Does-Cry-It-Out-Sleep-Training-StressBabies.aspx; http://web3.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=12577; http://timrohamro.com/myarticles/Study:-Crying-Babies-feel-Stressed/1285/3
6. Martin J., Hiscock H., Hardy P., Davey B., Wake M. Adverse associations of infant and child sleep problems and parent health: an Australian population study. Pediatrics 2007, 119:947-955.
7. Hiscock H., Bayer J., Gold L., Hampton A., Ukoumunne O.C., Wake M. Improving infant sleep and maternal mental health: a cluster randomised trial. Arch Dis Child 2007, 92:952-958.
8. Hiscock H., Bayer J.K., Hampton A., Ukoumunne O.C., Wake M. Long-term mother and child mental health effects of a population-based infant sleep intervention: cluster-randomized, controlled trial. Pediatrics 2008, 122:e621-e627.
9. Mindell J.A., Kuhn B., Lewin D.S., Meltzer L.J., Sadeh A., American Academy of Sleep Medicine Behavioral treatment of bedtime problems and night wakings in infants and young children. Sleep 2006, 29:1263-1276.
10. Price A, Wake M, Ukoumunne OC, Hiscock H. Benefits of behavioral infant sleep intervention: randomized trial: five-year follow-up of harms and benefits. Pediatrics in press.
11. Cohen J. A power primer. Psychol Bull 1992, 112:155-159.
12. McKay P. The con of controlled crying Publication date not listed. http://www.pinkymckay.com.au/sleep.
13. Santrock J.W. A topical approach to life-span development 2008, 4th ed.
14. Gunnar M.R., Frenn K., Wewerka S.S., Van Ryzin M.J. Moderate versus severe early life stress: associations with stress reactivity and regulation in 10-12-year-old children. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009, 34:62-75.
15. Heim C., Nemeroff C.B. The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical studies. Biol Psychiatry 2001, 49:1023-1039.