EFFECTS OF INSTITUTIONALISATION

• WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF INSTITUTIONALISATION?

  • adopting institution norms
  • disorganised attachment
  • disinhibited attachment
  • delayed physical development
  • delayed language development
  • impaired adult relationships
  • poor intellectual development
  • quasi-autism
  • reactive attachment disorder
• WHO DISCOVERED THE EFFECT OF POOR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT?

  Rutter
• WHAT DID RUTTER DISCOVER ABOUT POOR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT?

  most children showed signs of intellectual disability when arriving in the UK

  -> but if they were adopted before 6 months old, they caught up with UK adoptees by age 6
• WHAT DID RUTTERS DISCOVERY ABOUT POOR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT SUGGEST?

  can be overcome if adopted at a young age
• WHAT IS SHOWN IN REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER?

  withdrawn, unsure how to act in social situations
• WHAT HAPPENS IN DISORGANISED ATTACHMENT?

  freezing, contradictory behaviours around caregivers
• HOW DO INSTITUTIONALISED CHILDREN ACCEPT INSTITUTION NORMS?

  through deindividuation experienced
• EXAMPLES OF INSTITUTION NORMS ADOPTED BY ADOPTEES?

  identity loss/ rocking/ eating with hands
• WHAT IS SHOWN IN DISINHIBITED ATTACHMENT?

  no stranger anxiety
• WHAT DID RUTTER EXPLAIN ABOUT DISINHIBITED ATTACHMENT?

  it is an adaption to living with multiple caregivers during the critical period