Romania's abandoned children : deprivation, brain development, and the struggle for recovery / Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah.

Romania's abandoned children : deprivation, brain development, and the struggle for recovery / Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah.

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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Online Access: Full text (Emerson users only)
Main Author: Nelson, Charles A., III (Charles Alexander)
Contributors: Fox, Nathan A., Zeanah, Charles H., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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
Romania
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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