Romania's abandoned children : deprivation, brain development, and the struggle for recovery /

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Main Description:The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded, im...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nelson, Charles A., III (Charles Alexander)
Other Authors: Fox, Nathan A., Zeanah, Charles H., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Abandoned children > Romania > Psychology.
Abandoned children > Deinstitutionalization > Romania.
Deprivation (Psychology)
Child development.
Child, Abandoned > psychology
Child, Institutionalized > psychology
Child Development
Enfants abandonnés > Roumanie > Psychologie.
Enfants abandonnés > Désinstitutionnalisation > Roumanie.
Privation (Psychologie)
Enfants > Développement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Child.
Child development
Abandoned children > Psychology
Entwicklungsstörung
Kind
Kinderheim
Pflegefamilie
Psychosoziale Entwicklung
Romania
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Table of Contents:
  • The beginning of a journey
  • Study design and launch
  • The history of child institutionalization in Romania
  • Ethical considerations
  • Foster care intervention
  • Developmental hazards of institutionalization
  • Cognition and language
  • Early institutionalization and brain development
  • Growth, motor, and cellular findings
  • Socioemotional development
  • Psychopathology
  • Putting the pieces together.

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