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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access published online on March 26, 2008
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsn019
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Introduction to the Special Issue: Sleep in Children with Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Disorders

Judith Owens, MD, MPH1 and Tonya Palermo, PhD2

1Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University and 2Oregon Health & Science University

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Judith Owens, PhD, Ambulatory Pediatrics, Potter 200, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA. E-mail: owensleep@gmail.com

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The childhood shows the man,

As morning shows the day.

Paradise Regained, Book IV; John Milton (1608–1674)

For those clinicians and researchers who have chosen and embraced the challenges and rewards of working on a daily basis with children and families, the concept of "developmental context" is hardly a revelation. As with virtually any issue that pediatric practitioners confront in clinical settings or investigators examine in experimental settings or epidemiologic studies, sleep problems in childhood must be viewed in the context of normal physical and cognitive/emotional phenomena that are occurring at different developmental stages. For example, temporary regressions in sleep development often accompany the achievement of motor and cognitive milestones in the first year of life. Similarly, an increase in nighttime fears and night wakings in toddlers may be a temporary manifestation of developmentally normal separation anxiety peaking during that stage. In addition, sleep problems in the pediatric population must . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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