Helping children sleep.

بررسی اختلال‌های رفتاری حرکتی کودکان مبتلا به خرخر در سال 1390

 Background and Objective: Snoring is one of the most significant causes of sleep disturbance in children. Sleep behavior and movement disturbance (SBMD) is common and important and has prominent effect in quality of daily life in this age group. This study aimed to assess SBMD in children with a history of snoring in Qom.   Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we have c...

The Development of Altruistic Behavior: Helping in Children and Chimpanzees

“Help Yourself!” What Can Toddlers’ Helping Failures Tell Us About the Development of Prosocial Behavior?

Prosocial behavior emerges in the second year of life, yet it is typical for children in this period not to share, comfort, or help. We compared toddlers (18, 30 months) who helped with those who did not help on two tasks (instrumental helping; empathic helping). More than half of children failed to help on one or both tasks. Nonhelpers engaged in more hypothesis testing on the instrumental hel...

Parental Presence and Encouragement Do Not Influence Helping in Young Children

Young children begin helping others with simple instrumental problems from soon after their first birthdays. In previous observations of this phenomenon, both naturalistic and experimental, children’s parents were in the room and could potentially have influenced their behavior. In the two current studies, we gave 24-month-old children the opportunity to help an unfamiliar adult obtain an out-o...

P72: The Comparison of Sleep Anxiety in Autistic and Normal Children

Sleep disorders in children can lead to considerable complications. In some mental disorders including autism, it has more importance. Despite the importance of sleep in children developments and lives, few researches have conducted in this area therefore this research is going to investigate sleep behavioral disorders in children and compare with normal children. Research design was causal-com...