TY - BOOK AU - Nelson,Charles A. TI - Romania's Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery SN - 9780674724709 AV - HV887.R6 .N45 2014eb U1 - 362.7309498 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Abandoned children KW - Deinstitutionalization KW - Romania KW - Psychology KW - Deprivation (Psychology) KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726079 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674726079 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674726079.jpg ER -