Childhood maltreatment and adult chronic health conditions
Fitzgerald (2023) published “Serial Indirect Effects from Childhood Maltreatment to Adult Chronic Health Conditions Through Contemporary Family Relationships and Mental Health Problems: Inquiry into sleep disturbances and stress” in Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. As usual, I have edited the abstract with some information in bold:
Parental burnout, emotion suppression, and sleep
I am presenting abstracts of two studies related to exhaustion and sleep. In the first, Blanchard, Hoebeke & Heeren (2023) published “Parental Burnout Features and the Family Context: A temporal network approach in mothers” in Journal of Family Psychology. Here’s the abstract with some information in bold:
Sleep and depression – three studies
I have written about sleep before. Here, I present three studies all relating to effects of sleep problems on adolescents and each using a different methodology. In the first, Hoyniak, Whalen, Hennefield, Tillman, Barch & Luby (2022) published “Early Childhood Sleep Problems Predict Increased Risk for the Later Development of Suicidal Thoughts” in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. They begin by noting that, “Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth are an escalating and immediate public health concern.” Here’s more from the abstract:
Parents are wrong about teenage sleep and health
The Harvard Gazette published “Parents Are So Wrong About Teenage Sleep and Health” on September 28, 2022. They summarize results of a survey conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Primary care providers’ practices regarding patient sleep: Impact of integrated behavioral health
Golden, Cosottile, Meadows, Parikh & O'Dell (2022) published “Primary Care Providers’ Practices Regarding Patient Sleep: Impact of integrated behavioral health” in Families, Systems, & Health. I have written before about sleep and about interdisciplinary teams; this work combines the two. Here’s the abstract:
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents
Kouros, Keller, Martin-Pinon & El-Sheikh (2022) published “Bidirectional Associations Between Nightly Sleep and Daily Happiness and Negative Mood in Adolescents” in Child Development. I have written about sleep before, but like this study because it uses both sleep diaries and actigraphy with a relatively diverse sample. Here’s the abstract: