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Romania's Abandoned Children - Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery (Hardcover)
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Romania's Abandoned Children - Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery (Hardcover)
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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, impoverished institutions across Romania, and
prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of
institutionalization on children's well-being. Romania's Abandoned
Children, the authoritative account of this landmark study,
documents the devastating toll paid by children who are deprived of
responsive care, social interaction, stimulation, and psychological
comfort. Launched in 2000, the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
(BEIP) was a rigorously controlled investigation of foster care as
an alternative to institutionalization. Researchers included 136
abandoned infants and toddlers in the study and randomly assigned
half of them to foster care created specifically for the project.
The other half stayed in Romanian institutions, where conditions
remained substandard. Over a twelve-year span, both groups were
assessed for physical growth, cognitive functioning, brain
development, and social behavior. Data from a third group of
children raised by their birth families were collected for
comparison. The study found that the institutionalized children
were severely impaired in IQ and manifested a variety of social and
emotional disorders, as well as changes in brain development.
However, the earlier an institutionalized child was placed into
foster care, the better the recovery. Combining scientific,
historical, and personal narratives in a gripping, often
heartbreaking, account, Romania's Abandoned Children highlights the
urgency of efforts to help the millions of parentless children
living in institutions throughout the world.
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