STRENGTHS

• STRENGTHS OF ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES?

  • real world application
  • generalisability
• WHAT IS THE REAL WORLD APPLICATION OF ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES?

  enhanced understanding of negative effects
• WHAT IS ONE IMPACT OF ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES ON SOCIETY?

  positive impact on employment of key workers in institutions
• WHAT HAS ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES INCREASED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF?

  importance of age of adoption and quality/ stability of aftercare on adoption procedures
• WHICH STUDY WAS EXTREMELY GENERALISABLE?

  Rutter
• WHY WAS RUTTER'S STUDY EXTREMELY GENERALISABLE?

  165 orphans studies, which is an extremely large sample size
• WHAT DOES THE INCREASED GENERALISABILITY MEAN FOR ROMANIAN ORPHAN STUDIES?

  more credible as they are more representative of the population (different reasons for abandonment)
• WHAT IS A COUNTERARGUMENT FOR GENERALISABILITY?

  standards of care were particularly poor, which do not reflect all institutions