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Psychopathology in young children in two types of foster care following institutional rearing.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- The beneficial effects of a positive attention bias amongst children with a history of psychosocial deprivation.Biological psychology · 2017Trial
- The effects of early foster care intervention on attention biases in previously institutionalized children in Romania.Developmental science · 2015Trial
- Effects of institutional rearing and foster care on psychopathology at age 12 years in Romania: follow-up of an open, randomised controlled trial.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2015Trial
- Does rapid rebound height growth come at a neurocognitive cost for previously institutionalized youth?Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2022Article
- Friendship and social functioning following early institutional rearing: The role of ADHD symptoms.Development and psychopathology · 2019Article
- Dimensionality of Early Adversity and Associated Behavioral and Emotional Symptoms: Data from a Sample of Japanese Institutionalized Children and Adolescents.Child psychiatry and human development · 2019Article
- Stressful Life Events, ADHD Symptoms, and Brain Structure in Early Adolescence.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- ADHD Symptoms in Post-Institutionalized Children Are Partially Mediated by Altered Frontal EEG Asymmetry.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2017Article
- Positive valence bias and parent-child relationship security moderate the association between early institutional caregiving and internalizing symptoms.Development and psychopathology · 2017Article
- The Development of Children Placed into Different Types of Russian Families Following an Institutional Intervention.International perspectives in psychology : research, practice, consultation · 2016Article
- Using cross-species comparisons and a neurobiological framework to understand early social deprivation effects on behavioral development.Development and psychopathology · 2015Review
- Deviations from the expectable environment in early childhood and emerging psychopathology.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2015Review
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Institutional rearing of young children has been demonstrated to increase risk for a broad range of psychiatric disorders and other impairments. This has led many countries to consider or to invest in foster care. However, no study to date has explored potential differences in psychiatric symptoms in children placed in different types of foster care. We assessed internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 54-month-old children living with foster families. We compared one group of children living in high-quality foster families who had benefited from specialized training and support to another group of children placed with government-sponsored foster care in Bucharest, Romania. After controlling for duration of time spent in foster care, there was a main group effect in predicting ADHD (p = .021) and a marginal group × gender interaction effect. No effects were noted for signs of externalizing disorders. There was, however, a significant group × gender interaction effect of signs of internalizing disorders (p = .007), with the girls in high-quality foster care having less severe symptomatology than did their counterparts in the government-sponsored group. Governments must invest in quality interventions for their most vulnerable citizens to prevent serious and potentially lasting problems.
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