Rocking at Night

Evans, J. D.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1961.tb02010.x

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“…Isolated cases have reported RMD as an anxiety-reducing behavior (7,30). Certainly, children experiencing extreme emotional deprivation engage in self-soothing rocking in the daytime(64) -whether this translates to a uniquely sleep related behavior however, is unclear.…”

Section: Co-morbid Sleep Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhythmic movement disorder in childhood: An integrative review

Gwyther

Walters

Hill

2017

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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Section: Co-morbid Sleep Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhythmic movement disorder in childhood: An integrative review

Gwyther

Walters

Hill

2017

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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“…High anxiety levels were previously reported in adults with night terrors 21,81 or bruxism. [82][83][84] Anxiety has also been associated with night terrors 85 and body rocking 86 in children, but only from clinical reports. Overall, we found significant associations between anxiety level and all parasomnias studied, except for sleepwalking and enuresis.…”

Section: Influence Of Social Factors and Psychological Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Parasomnias From Childhood to Early Adolescence

Laberge

Tremblay²,

Vitaro³

et al. 2000

Pediatrics

369

175

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ABSTRACT.Objectives. This study examines the prevalence and developmental changes of parasomnias and assesses gender differences, relationships between parasomnias, and associations with anxiety and family adversity using data collected during the course of a longitudinal study of a representative sample of children from Québec.Method. The present analyses are based on results available for 664 boys and 689 girls for whom mothers have completed questions concerning demographics, parasomnias, and anxiety level. For the prevalence and developmental aspects of parasomnias, prospective data were collected at annual intervals from 11 to 13 years old and retrospective data for the period between ages 3 and 10 years were collected when the children were 10 years old.Results. Somniloquy, leg restlessness, and sleep bruxism are the most frequent parasomnias. More girls were afflicted with leg restlessness, while enuresis and somniloquy were more common in boys. High anxiety scores were found in children suffering from night terrors, somniloquy, leg restlessness, sleep bruxism, and body rocking. Parasomnias were unrelated to the index of family adversity.Conclusions. Although sleepwalking, night terrors, enuresis, and body rocking dramatically decreased during childhood, somniloquy, leg restlessness, and sleep bruxism were still highly prevalent at age 13 years, paralleling results found in adults. Sleepwalking, night terrors, and somniloquy are conditions often found together. The only robust gender difference was for enuresis. High anxiety scores in parasomnias are reported for the first time in a large, controlled study. Sociodemographic variables do not seem to play a major role in the occurrence of parasomnias. Pediatrics 2000; 106:67-74; sleep disorders, parasomnias, epidemiology, gender differences, anxiety, childhood, adolescence.

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“…This expectation has, by and large, not been confirmed in the child-therapy literature. Although Walton (1961) effectively controlled multiple facial, arm, leg, and vocalization tics in an 11-year-old boy in only 36 treatment sessions and Ernest (1960) reported eliminating a girl's inspiratory tic, two recent studies have reported massed practice to be ineffective in controlling bizarre, repetitive rocking at night (Evans, 1961) and headjerk and eyeblink tics (Feldman & Werry, 1966). In the latter study, both tics actually increased in frequency over base-line levels as a result of massed practice of the head jerk.…”

Section: Ticsmentioning

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Behavior therapy with children: A review and evaluation of research methodology.

Gelfand¹,

Hartmann²

1968

Psychological Bulletin

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In this review of the literature on behavior therapy with children, papers are classified in terms of the therapist's goals in treatment including: (a) deceleration of maladaptive behavior, (b) acceleration of prosocial behavior, and (c) combined promotion of adaptive behavior and control of problematic behavior. Although a number of the studies reviewed convincingly demonstrate the efficacy of behavioristic treatment approaches, the majority of papers were inadequately controlled and incompletely recorded case studies. It is suggested that when individual Ss are used for therapy-evaluation studies, E should provide: (a) adequate base-line measures of the target behavior, (b) systematic variation of reinforcement contingencies or other procedures demonstrating control of S's behavior, (c) evidence that behavior observations are unbiased, and (d) rigorous follow-up evaluations.

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Rocking at Night

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Rhythmic movement disorder in childhood: An integrative review

Rhythmic movement disorder in childhood: An integrative review

Development of Parasomnias From Childhood to Early Adolescence

Behavior therapy with children: A review and evaluation of research methodology.

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