Sleep Deprivation and Risk for Cognitive Vulnerability in School-Going Adolescents: Does the Biopsychosocial Correlates have a Significant Role over Sleep Behavioral Practices?

Recent decades have seen a proliferation of interest in children and childhood studiesfrom academics, policy makers, and practitioners working with children and families. This interest reflects several shifts in perspectives on children and childhood which have revolutionised thinking about childrenfrom 'objects' to 'subjects' to 'agents', and from 'becomings' to 'beings'. These shifts have been informed by a range of academic and policy developments. The development of the new social studies of childhood has posed an important challenge to developmental approaches to understanding children and childhood. While traditional, developmental approaches position children as interesting because they are growing towards adulthood, newer sociological approaches position children and childhood as a source of interest in their own right, during childhood and not only because children will later become adults. Biological immaturity is a factbut the precise nature of 'childhood' is socially constructed, and varies according to time, place, and culture. These academic developments have informed and coincided with policy changes. The need to respect children and childhood as of relevance in its own right has been promoted by the phenomenally successful United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which sets out for children a range of rights supplemental to the human rights accorded to all irrespective of age, reflecting their unique social and developmental position. Importantly, these rights are not just about protecting children from harm and providing for their developmentthey also relate to children's

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Editorial to the First Issue of Childhood Vulnerability Journal

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König

Sultan

2018

Childhood Vulnerability

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Editorial to the Second Issue of Childhood Vulnerability Journal

Andresen

König

Sultan

2019

Childhood Vulnerability

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Sleep Deprivation and Risk for Cognitive Vulnerability in School-Going Adolescents: Does the Biopsychosocial Correlates have a Significant Role over Sleep Behavioral Practices?

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Editorial to the First Issue of Childhood Vulnerability Journal

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