Mona El-Sheikh, Ph.D. is the Leonard Peterson & Co. Inc. Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Auburn University. Her ongoing interdisciplinary research focuses on associations among family risk, psychophysiological regulation, sleep, and child outcomes in psychological adjustment, physical health, cognitive functioning, and academic performance domains.

• Foreword Introduction and Overview: Salient Issues in the Consideration of Sleep in Context Mona El-Sheikh Part ISleep: Familial Influences Chapter 1: Sleep in Children: Links with Marital Conflict and Child DevelopmentMona El-Sheikh and Ryan J. Kelly Chapter 2: The Parenting Context of Children's SleepStephen A. Erath and Kelly M. Tu Chapter 3: Sleep and AttachmentPeggy S. Keller Chapter 4: Parental Psychopathology and Children's SleepRonald Seifer Chapter 5: Effects of Trauma on Children's SleepCarol Glod Chapter 6: Impact of Child Sleep Disturbances on Parent Sleep and Daytime FunctioningLisa J. Meltzer and Anna M. L. Westin Chapter 7: Children's Sleep Deficits and Cognitive and Behavioral AdjustmentAngela D. Staples and John E. Bates Part IISleep: Socio-Cultural Influences Chapter 8: Developmental Cultural Ecology of SleepCarol Worthman Chapter 9: Sleep Environments of Young Children in Post-Industrial SocietiesMelissa M. Burnham and Erika E. Gaylor Chapter 10: Children's Sleep in the context of Socioeconomic Status, Race, and EthnicityLes A. Gellis Chapter 11: Children's Sleep, Cognition, and Academic Performance in the Context of Socioeconomic Status and EthnicityJoseph A. Buckhalt and Lori E. Staton Chapter 12: Young Adolescents: Struggles with Insufficient SleepAmy R. Wolfson and Melissa Richards Part IIIAssessment of Sleep, Family Functioning, and the Ecology of Economic Disadvantage Chapter 13: The Ecology of Economic Disadvantage and Children's Sleep Brian P. Ackerman and Eleanor D. Brown Chapter 14: Assessment of Family FunctioningE. Mark Cummings, Kalsea J. Koss, and Kathleen N. Bergman Chapter 15: Sleep Assessment MethodsAvi Sadeh Part IVIntervention for Sleep Problems Chapter 16: Family Based Interventions for Sleep Problems of Infants and ChildrenCourtney Johnson and Jodi A. Mindell

"The most important and practical questions about sleep in children and adolescents in contemporary society require an integrated approach that includes a broader understanding of the family, social, and cultural contexts in which sleep occurs, develops, goes awry, and influences and interacts with an immense range of different aspects of life. Mona El-Sheikh and her colleagues have taken a huge step toward accomplishing this set of goals. This book provides amatrix of understanding the family and socio-cultural contexts that is not only pragmatically helpful and interesting, but also will help to frame future investigations that will lead to a deeper andbetter integrated understanding of sleep and development across numerous disciplines." --from the Foreword by Ronald E. Dahl, M.D., Professor of Public Health University of California at Berkeley"This volume is an extremely valuable contribution to the pediatric sleep field and represents a notable blend of science with applications to real parent and child contexts, while maintaining a scientifically accurate vision. It deserves close scrutiny from all those who are involved in developmental sleep research and want to look at a child's sleep from an evolutionary (or different) perspective."--Oliviero Bruni, M.D., President of the InternationalPediatric Sleep Association and Director of the Pediatric Sleep Center, Department of Developmental Neurology and Psychiatry, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy"At last! A comprehensive and integrative review of exciting new research and practice of one of the most important human activities --sleep. Sleep is a biological function that affects growth and health, a psychological function that affects social-emotional and cognitive functioning, and a culturally organized social function that affects the emotional and physical health of other family members. In this book a cast of experts in each of these domainspresents an overview and a biopsychosocial integration that will be of great use to students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers who are invested in understanding and improving sleep, andconsequently, the quality of life of developing children."--Arnold Sameroff, Ph.D., Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan