PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN YOUNG CHILDREN IN TWO TYPES OF FOSTER CARE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONAL REARING
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Institutional rearing of young children has been demonstrated to increase risk for a broad range of psychiatric disorders and other impairments. This has led many countries to consider or to invest in foster care. However, no study to date has explored potential differences in psychiatric symptoms in children placed in different types of foster care. We assessed internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 54‐month‐old children living with foster families. We compared one group of children living in high‐quality foster families who had benefited from specialized training and support to another group of children placed with government‐sponsored foster care in Bucharest, Romania. After controlling for duration of time spent in foster care, there was a main group effect in predicting ADHD (p = .021) and a marginal group × gender interaction effect. No effects were noted for signs of externalizing disorders. There was, however, a significant group × gender interaction effect of signs of internalizing disorders (p = .007), with the girls in high‐quality foster care having less severe symptomatology than did their counterparts in the government‐sponsored group. Governments must invest in quality interventions for their most vulnerable citizens to prevent serious and potentially lasting problems.
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Children placed in high-quality foster care had significantly lower levels of ADHD compared with those in a government sponsored foster care, which had less support available for caregivers.
“Children placed in a high-quality foster care had significantly lower levels of ADHD compared with those in a government sponsored foster care, which had less support available for caregivers (Tibu et al, 2014).”
From Deviations from the expectable environment in early childhood and emerging psychopathology (2015) · cites this paper as Tibu et al, 2014
Quality of foster care environment was unrelated to externalizing disorder symptoms in the BEIP.
“Yet, in contrast to findings that environmental interventions are the most effective treatment for conduct problems, quality of foster care environment was unrelated to externalizing disorder symptoms in the BEIP (Tibu et al, 2014).”
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- Authors
- Tibu, F., Humphreys, K. L., Fox, N. A., Nelson, C. A., & Zeanah, C. H.
- Affiliations
- Institute of Child Development Bucharest Romania
- Tulane University (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Corresponding author
- Tibu, Florin
- Venue
- Infant Mental Health Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-02-04
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 123-131
- ISSN
- 0163-9641 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0355
- PMC
- PMC4407468
- OpenAlex
- W2171420190
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 13.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Infant Mental Health Journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH091363)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- foster care, institutional upbringing, early childhood psychopathology, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, gender differences, child mental health
- MeSH terms
- Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Mental Disorders, Child, Institutionalized, Child, Preschool, Female, Foster Home Care, Humans, Male, Psychopathology, Sex Factors
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