As with all psychiatric disorders, mild and transient symptoms do not
necessarily constitute a sleep disorder. Bedtime problems, primarily
seen in children 2 years of age and older, include bedtime stalling
and bedtime refusal. Bedtime refusal behaviors are typically
described as stalling, verbal protests, crying, clinging, refusing
to go to bed, getting out of bed, attention-seeking behaviors, and
multiple requests for food, drinks, and stories (“curtain calls”).
This constellation of sleep behaviors generally falls within the diagnostic
category of behavioral insomnia of childhood, limit-setting
type, in which parents demonstrate difficulties in adequately
enforcing bedtime limits (e.g., inconsistent or inappropriate bedtime
for the child’s age, conceding to multiple requests for attention
after bedtime). In general, night wakings fall within the diagnostic
category of behavioral insomnia of childhood, sleep onset
association type, with most children relying on sleep onset associations
(e.g., rocking, feeding, parental presence) to fall asleep
at bedtime. During the course of normal nighttime arousals, these
children are then unable to recreate this sleep association, requiring
parental assistance to return to sleep.4 Night wakings are typically
viewed as problematic by caregivers only when they involve
“signaling” (e.g., accompanied by crying, protesting, or getting
out of bed), and are frequent and/or prolonged.
As with all psychiatric disorders, mild and transient symptoms do not
necessarily constitute a sleep disorder. Bedtime problems, primarily
seen in children 2 years of age and older, include bedtime stalling
and bedtime refusal. Bedtime refusal behaviors are typically
described as stalling, verbal protests, crying, clinging, refusing
to go to bed, getting out of bed, attention-seeking behaviors, and
multiple requests for food, drinks, and stories (“curtain calls”).
This constellation of sleep behaviors generally falls within the diagnostic
category of behavioral insomnia of childhood, limit-setting
type, in which parents demonstrate difficulties in adequately
enforcing bedtime limits (e.g., inconsistent or inappropriate bedtime
for the child’s age, conceding to multiple requests for attention
after bedtime). In general, night wakings fall within the diagnostic
category of behavioral insomnia of childhood, sleep onset
association type, with most children relying on sleep onset associations
(e.g., rocking, feeding, parental presence) to fall asleep
at bedtime. During the course of normal nighttime arousals, these
children are then unable to recreate this sleep association, requiring
parental assistance to return to sleep.4 Night wakings are typically
viewed as problematic by caregivers only when they involve
“signaling” (e.g., accompanied by crying, protesting, or getting
out of bed), and are frequent and/or prolonged.
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