Institutionalisation Flashcards
Institutionalisation
a place, like a hospital or orphanage, where children live for a long, continuous period of time, where there is little emotional care provided
institutionalisation key study
Rutter’s ERA (English and Romanian adoptee) study
-adopted within the. ritually period made a recovery by age 4, those who weren’t had irreversible damage
effects of institutionalisation
-disinhibited attachment
-physical underdevelopment (deprivation dwarfism)
-poor parenting
-low IQ
-delayed language development
-quasi-autism
disinhibited attachment
when children are attention seeking and clingy to both familiar and unfamiliar people. seen in children adopted after the critical period, the result of living with multiple attachment figures during the sensitive period