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Attachment A01 ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES: EFFECTS ON INSTITUTIONALISATION Romanian orphan studies Orphan studies are used to study effects of deprivation Rutter's ERA (English and Romanian Adoptee) study Procedure - Rutter and Colleagues (2011) studied 165 Romanian orphans adopted in Britain. They assessed physical, cognitive, and emotional development at the ages of 4,6,11 and 15. There was a control group of 52 adopted British children Findings - signs of delayed intellectual development and undernourishment when arrived in UK. Showed differential rates of recovery at age 11, depending on when they were adopted. Those adopted after 6 months had disinhibited attachment, e.g. symptoms of clinginess and attention seeking The Bucharest Early Intervention project Procedure - Zeanah et al. (2005) used strange situation to study 95 children aged 12-31 months who had spent most of their lives in institutionalised care. Compared to control group of 50 who had never lived in care Findings - 74% of control group were securely attached, and only 19% of institutional group were. 44% of institutional group showed disinhibited attachment, and less than 20% on the control group Effects of institutionalisation A03 Paper 1 Disinhibited attachment - effect of spending time in institution. Equally affectionate towards people they do and do not know - strange as most children this age show stranger anxiety. Could be due to having been taken care of...
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by many carers, none of which they formed a secure attachment with Mental retardation - many showed signs of retardation when they arrived in Britain. Those adopted before 6 months caught up with control group by age 4. Damage to intellectual development due to institutionalisation can be recovered as long as adopted before 6 months, as this is when attachments form Evaluation Real-life application Enhanced understandings of effects of institutionalisation Orphanages and children's homes now aim to have only a couple of carers per child Fewer extraneous variables than other orphan studies Attachment Other studies involved children who had experienced loos or trauma before being institutionalised, making it hard to observe effects of institutionalisation alone The Romanian orphanages were not typical Studies may lack generalisability due to the conditions in the Romanian orphanages being so poor Ethical issues Paper 1 In the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, Romanian orphans were randomly allocated to institutional care or fostering The long-term effects are not clear yet Too soon to say whether the children suffered short or long-term effects
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Attachment A01 ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES: EFFECTS ON INSTITUTIONALISATION Romanian orphan studies Orphan studies are used to study effects of deprivation Rutter's ERA (English and Romanian Adoptee) study Procedure - Rutter and Colleagues (2011) studied 165 Romanian orphans adopted in Britain. They assessed physical, cognitive, and emotional development at the ages of 4,6,11 and 15. There was a control group of 52 adopted British children Findings - signs of delayed intellectual development and undernourishment when arrived in UK. Showed differential rates of recovery at age 11, depending on when they were adopted. Those adopted after 6 months had disinhibited attachment, e.g. symptoms of clinginess and attention seeking The Bucharest Early Intervention project Procedure - Zeanah et al. (2005) used strange situation to study 95 children aged 12-31 months who had spent most of their lives in institutionalised care. Compared to control group of 50 who had never lived in care Findings - 74% of control group were securely attached, and only 19% of institutional group were. 44% of institutional group showed disinhibited attachment, and less than 20% on the control group Effects of institutionalisation A03 Paper 1 Disinhibited attachment - effect of spending time in institution. Equally affectionate towards people they do and do not know - strange as most children this age show stranger anxiety. Could be due to having been taken care of...
Attachment A01 ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES: EFFECTS ON INSTITUTIONALISATION Romanian orphan studies Orphan studies are used to study effects of deprivation Rutter's ERA (English and Romanian Adoptee) study Procedure - Rutter and Colleagues (2011) studied 165 Romanian orphans adopted in Britain. They assessed physical, cognitive, and emotional development at the ages of 4,6,11 and 15. There was a control group of 52 adopted British children Findings - signs of delayed intellectual development and undernourishment when arrived in UK. Showed differential rates of recovery at age 11, depending on when they were adopted. Those adopted after 6 months had disinhibited attachment, e.g. symptoms of clinginess and attention seeking The Bucharest Early Intervention project Procedure - Zeanah et al. (2005) used strange situation to study 95 children aged 12-31 months who had spent most of their lives in institutionalised care. Compared to control group of 50 who had never lived in care Findings - 74% of control group were securely attached, and only 19% of institutional group were. 44% of institutional group showed disinhibited attachment, and less than 20% on the control group Effects of institutionalisation A03 Paper 1 Disinhibited attachment - effect of spending time in institution. Equally affectionate towards people they do and do not know - strange as most children this age show stranger anxiety. Could be due to having been taken care of...
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by many carers, none of which they formed a secure attachment with Mental retardation - many showed signs of retardation when they arrived in Britain. Those adopted before 6 months caught up with control group by age 4. Damage to intellectual development due to institutionalisation can be recovered as long as adopted before 6 months, as this is when attachments form Evaluation Real-life application Enhanced understandings of effects of institutionalisation Orphanages and children's homes now aim to have only a couple of carers per child Fewer extraneous variables than other orphan studies Attachment Other studies involved children who had experienced loos or trauma before being institutionalised, making it hard to observe effects of institutionalisation alone The Romanian orphanages were not typical Studies may lack generalisability due to the conditions in the Romanian orphanages being so poor Ethical issues Paper 1 In the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, Romanian orphans were randomly allocated to institutional care or fostering The long-term effects are not clear yet Too soon to say whether the children suffered short or long-term effects