Attachment - LT8: Rutter's Institutionalisation - created from Mind Map

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Institutionalisation: The effect of living in an institutional setting for long periods of time with little to no emotional care

Rutter's ERA

Zeanah's BEIP (Bucharest Early Intervention Project)

Effects

Strengths

Weaknesses

Orphan Studies: Studies who use P's that are placed into care as parents cannot look after them

Privation: The complete lack of opportunity to form an attachment bond

Longitudinal, Repeated Measures

165 Orphans adopted

PCE was measured at 4,6,11,15

52 British Adoptees

Adopted < 6 = Fine

Adopted > 6 = Disinhibted Attachment, intellectual delay

95 Children, 12-31 Months, 90% in Instituionalised

50 Control Groups

19% Securely Attached

74% was securely attached

65% were disorganised

Disinhibited observed in 44%

Disinhibited Attachment

Mental Retardation

Children being indiscriminate in who they direct their attachment behaviours towards

Hugging Strangers, attention seeking

Intellectual Development can be affected if adopted > 6

Low IQ's

Lack of language

P: RW Applications

E1: Changes in social care

E2: Key Worker schemes - One person responsible for the provision of emotional care of the infant

L: Increased QoL

P: Specific Sample

E1: Romanian orphans were in extreme situations

E2: Crowding of cots, one carer for every 50 infants at best, and 100 at worst

L: These extreme psychological and physical conditions mean that these results cannot be generalised to explain other forms of privation or deprivation

CP: However, privation is supposed to be an extreme condition in a marginal scenario