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Romania's Abandoned Children: Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery
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Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared with children in foster care, the institutionalized children in this rigorous twelve‐year study showed severe impairment in IQ and brain development, along with social and emotional disorders.
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- Nelson, C. A.
- Corresponding author
- Nelson, Charles A.
- ORCID
- Nelson, Charles A.
- Venue
- Harvard University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2014-01-06
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- W3208026646
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- en
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- institutionalized children, Romanian orphanage, child neglect, responsive caregiving, brain development, foster care, child development
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