Institutionalisation

• Romanian Orphan Study (Rutter)

  • longitudinal study
  • aim - extent that good care counteracts bad early experience
  • findings- institutionalisation = disinhibited attachment
• Bucharest early intervention (Zenah et al)

  • used strange situation
  • institutionalisation = less secure attachment
• strengths 


  practical applications

  no confounding variables
• weaknesses


  IV isn’t controlled = pts differences affecting

  socially sensitive