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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

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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
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disinhibited attachment

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children showed sign of intellectual disability when they arrived in britain

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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
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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
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