Effects of Institutionalisation
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- Effects of Institutionalisa-tion
- Rutter and Sonuga-Barke (2010)
- Procedure
- The orphans were tested aged 4,6,11 and 15 to asses PIS development
- Parents and teachers were also interviewed
- The study included 165 romanian orphans
- 111 were adopted before 2 and the rest by 4 years old
- This was compared to 52 British children adopted before 6 months
- Findings
- After six months care the infants showed disinhibited attachments and relationship problems
- They were smaller weighed less and were mentally delayed
- Long term consequences may be less severe if children can form attachments
- The Romanian orphans lagged behind their British counterparts
- Procedure
- Effects
- Physical under-development
- Physically small - deprivation dwarfism
- Intellectual under-functioning
- Cognitive development is affected by emotional development
- Poor Parenting
- Parent's from institutional care struggled to act as parents
- Dis-inhibited attachment
- Treat strangers with over-friendliness and attention seeking
- Physical under-development
- Rutter and Sonuga-Barke (2010)
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