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Rutter, Michael; Kreppner, Jana; Croft, Carla; Murin, Marianna; Colvert, Emma; Beckett, Celia; Castle, Jenny; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Some young children reared in profoundly depriving institutions have been found to show autistic-like patterns, but the developmental significance of these features is unknown. Methods: A randomly selected, age-stratified, sample of 144 children who had experienced an institutional upbringing in Romania and who were adopted by UK…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Early Adolescents, Clinical Diagnosis, Foreign Countries
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Crittenden, Patricia M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1985
Offers evidence supporting a model of bidirectional effects: the mother initiates maltreatment, but both mother and infant sustain the situation by their behaviors. Maltreated infants did not differ from controls in congenital characteristics, but displayed deviance in learned behavior patterns. Infants showed behavioral improvement after…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Child Abuse