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Romania's Abandoned Children : Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery / Charles A. Nelson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (414 p.) : 25 halftones, 10 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674724709
  • 9780674726079
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.7309498 23
LOC classification:
  • HV887.R6 .N45 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Beginning of a Journey -- Chapter 2. Study Design and Launch -- Chapter 3. The History of Child Institutionalization in Romania -- Chapter 4. Ethical Considerations -- Chapter 5. Foster Care Intervention -- Chapter 6. Developmental Hazards of Institutionalization -- Chapter 7. Cognition and Language -- Chapter 8. Early Institutionalization and Brain Development -- Chapter 9. Growth, Motor, and Cellular Findings -- Chapter 10. Socioemotional Development -- Chapter 11. Psychopathology -- Chapter 12. Putting the Pieces Together -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared with children in foster care, the institutionalized children in this rigorous twelve‐year study showed severe impairment in IQ and brain development, along with social and emotional disorders.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674726079

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Beginning of a Journey -- Chapter 2. Study Design and Launch -- Chapter 3. The History of Child Institutionalization in Romania -- Chapter 4. Ethical Considerations -- Chapter 5. Foster Care Intervention -- Chapter 6. Developmental Hazards of Institutionalization -- Chapter 7. Cognition and Language -- Chapter 8. Early Institutionalization and Brain Development -- Chapter 9. Growth, Motor, and Cellular Findings -- Chapter 10. Socioemotional Development -- Chapter 11. Psychopathology -- Chapter 12. Putting the Pieces Together -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared with children in foster care, the institutionalized children in this rigorous twelve‐year study showed severe impairment in IQ and brain development, along with social and emotional disorders.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)