orphan studies ATM Flashcards
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orphan studies
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Placed in care because their parents cannot look after them, died parents or abandoned them
2
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institutionalism
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Behaviour patterns of children who have been raised in setting such as orphanages or care homes
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Romanian policy problem
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Former president required romanian women to have five children - Most couldn’t afford to keep this many children, so ended up in orphanages
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Rutter’s procedure
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- 165 Romanian orphans part of the study
- adopted by families in the UK
- Extent to which good care could make up for poor early experiences in institutions
- Physical, emotional, cognitive assessed in ages 4,6,11,15 and 22-25
- 52 children from UK adopted around same time played control group
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Rutter’s findings
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- Delayed intellectual development and undernourished
- 11 yrs old, different rates of recovery
- IQ of those adopted before 6 months was 102
- IQ adopted between 6 months and 2 years was 86
- After 6 month showed disinhibited attachment (Attention seeking, clinginess)
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Zeanah’s procedure
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- Assessing attachment in 95 Romanian children 12-31 months most lives in institutional care
- Control group of 50 children never in institution
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Zeanah’s findings
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- 74% of control group securely attached
- 19% of institutional group were securely attached
8
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disinhibited attachment
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children showed sign of intellectual disability when they arrived in britain
9
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RWA
strength
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- Application to improve conditions for children growing up in institutions
- Improved knowledge around institutional care and how to prevent the worse effects
- For example, children’s homes now avoid large numbers of caregivers for each child
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confounding variables
strength
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- Lack of confounding variables
- romanian orphans had been handed over by loving parents who could not afford to keep them
- results less likely to be confounded by other negative early experiences
11
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Lack of adult data
limitation
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- latest data from ERA was early to mid 20s
- no current data on long term effects
- take time to gatherinformation as longitudinal study
- possible that ‘late aadopted’ children may catch up