PARENTS AND CHILDREN SLEEPING TOGETHER: Cosleeping Prevalence and Concerns

Review of the cosleeping literature yields a very limited body of prevalence research, only a small portion of which involves psychiatric populations. An archival records review of child and adolescent urban outpatients suggests that prevalence has been underestimated in the literature and that cosl...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1995-07, Vol.65 (3), p.411-418
Main Authors: Rath, Frank H, Okum, Marjorie E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Anxiety, Separation - epidemiology
Anxiety, Separation - psychology
Beds
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child of Impaired Parents - psychology
Child, Preschool
Childrearing Practices
Children & youth
Consequence
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Human
Humans
Incest - psychology
Incest - statistics & numerical data
Incidence
Male
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Parent Child Relations
Parent-Child interactions
Parents & parenting
Personality Development
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sharing
Sleep
Sleep Wake Disorders - epidemiology
Sleep Wake Disorders - psychology
Social Environment
Social research
Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
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Summary:Review of the cosleeping literature yields a very limited body of prevalence research, only a small portion of which involves psychiatric populations. An archival records review of child and adolescent urban outpatients suggests that prevalence has been underestimated in the literature and that cosleeping is associated with child and parent anxiety and issues of separation and sleep management, rather than with inappropriate sexual contact.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1037/h0079654