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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages 212-223Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01390.x
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH091363] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH091363] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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This study examined classifications of attachment in 42-month-old Romanian children (N = 169). Institutionalized since birth, children were assessed comprehensively, randomly assigned to care as usual (CAU) or to foster care, and compared to family-reared children. Attachment classifications for children in foster care were markedly different from those in the CAU. Importantly, children placed in foster care before 24 months were more likely to have secure attachments and if placed earlier were less likely to have disorganized or insecure-other attachments. Cognitive status predicted greater likelihood of organized attachment in the CAU and greater likelihood of secure attachment in the foster care and never-institutionalized groups. Foster care is an important intervention to reduce the adverse effects following early deprivation.
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