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Social and Family Relationships of Ex‐Institutional Adolescents
Author(s) -
Hodges Jill,
Tizard Barbara
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00770.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , social environment , social relation , clinical psychology , social psychology , law , political science
The adolescents described in the preceding companion articles ( J. Child Psychol. Psychiat. 30 , 33–75, (1989) had experienced multiple changing caregivers until at least 2 years old. Such maternal deprivation did not necessarily prevent them forming strong and lasting attachments to parents once placed in families, but whether such attachments developed depended on the family environment, being much more common in adopted children than in those restored to a biological parent. Both these groups alike, however, were more oriented towards adult attention, and had more difficulties with peers and fewer dose relationships than matched comparison adolescents, indicating some long term effects of their early institutional experience,