ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2017
Alternatives for abandoned children: insights from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.
- Physical and neurophysiological maturation associated with ADHD among previously institutionalized children: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Trial
- A Comprehensive Multilevel Analysis of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Causal Effects on Recovery From Early Severe Deprivation.The American journal of psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Enhancing diurnal cortisol regulation among young children adopted internationally: A randomized controlled trial of a parenting-based intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2020Trial
- Social communication deficits following early-life deprivation and relation to psychopathology: a randomized clinical trial of foster care.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Trial
- Global deficits in executive functioning are transdiagnostic mediators between severe childhood neglect and psychopathology in adolescence.Psychological medicine · 2020Trial
- Externalizing trajectories predict elevated inflammation among adolescents exposed to early institutional rearing: A randomized clinical trial.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Trial
- The Consequences of Foster Care Versus Institutional Care in Early Childhood on Adolescent Cardiometabolic and Immune Markers: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Trial
- Long-term effects of institutional rearing, foster care, and brain activity on memory and executive functioning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Trial
- Effect of Foster Care Intervention on Trajectories of General and Specific Psychopathology Among Children With Histories of Institutional Rearing: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Functional connectivity of youth in family-like residential care in Japan: Impact of reactive attachment disorder and disinhibited social engagement disorder symptoms.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026Article
- Conflict resolution dynamics with stable caregivers confer resilience for youth exposed to early caregiving-related adversity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Postnatal maternal care impacts hypothalamicbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Subjective well-being of Kenyan children reunified with families from residential care institutions: A closer look at child disability.Child protection and practice · 2025Article
- Where Do Our Children Go? Understanding the Impact of Institutionalization on Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Sleep.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The neurobiology of parenting and infant-evoked aggression.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- Love on the developing brain: Maternal sensitivity and infants' neural responses to emotion in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Integrating Biobehavioral and Environmental Components of Developmental Psychopathology via Interpersonal Dynamics: An RDoC-Advancing Model.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Review
- Early life adversity in primates: Behavioral, endocrine, and neural effects.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
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- Childhood Experiences of Alternative Care and Callousness/Unemotionality: A Conceptual Model, Scoping Review, and Research Agenda.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The Bucharest Early Intervention Project is the first and only randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care for orphaned and abandoned children. Across various domains of brain and behavioral development we demonstrated that children in families developed more favorably than children in institutions, that foster care remediates some but not all compromises associated with institutional placement and that earlier placement in foster care leads to more developmental gains in some but not all domains. In addition to early placement, higher quality of care provided and more stable placements for children all enhanced outcomes. These results have important implications for science, practice and policy.
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