117: Cultural Influences on Infant Sleep (NURSES)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Identify what constitutes “normal, healthy and desirable” infant sleep
2. When was the importance of local cultural influences values on infant and childhood sleep first discovered and by whom
3. Describe the critical relationship between the cultural ideologies that underlie sleep practices and desired developmental outcomes
4. What are the conventional western understandings of “Healthy, Normal” Infant and Childhood Sleep

(40 pages)