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Question 1

caregiver commitment

Answer 1

degree to which a caregiver thinks of child as his/her own& desire to continue the relationship

Question 2

cottage care

Answer 2

long-term staff that live with children for extended periods of time

Question 3

foster caregivers express ____ of commitment than cottage care & shift workers in group care settings

Answer 3

significantly higher levels

Question 4

foster care

Answer 4

caregivers commit & emotionally invest in children, even when situation is temporary

Question 5

Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP)

Answer 5

random assignment: high-quality foster care & care as usual (institutional care) & community comparison group

Question 6

random assignment

Answer 6

• process of randomly assigning participants to have a certain experience
• third variables (confounds) are randomly distributed across the groups
• leads to the condition of groups systematically differing only on the manipulated variable

Question 7

BEIP

Answer 7

longitudinal; domains of functioning assessed: physical development, language, social functioning, cognition, attachment, brain function, mental health functioning

Question 8

key conclusions from BEIP

Answer 8

• effects of institutional care are pervasive & devastating
• timing is of the essence: remediation becomes more difficult the longer adverse conditions last
• in moving away from the institutional care, it is critical that a high quality foster care system be developed

Question 9

BEIP findings

Answer 9

children placed in foster care before 24mths were more likely to have secure attachments, than children placed later

Question 10

what does attachment security serve as?

Answer 10

a mechanism to improved mental health outcomes; foster care has ameliorative effects on internalizing symptoms for girls but not boys; girls in FC had lower levels of internalizing symptoms than girls in CAU

Question 11

possible explanations for why boys did not differ

Answer 11

• girls were better able to elicit sensitive caregiving
• caregivers perceived boys as more difficult
• institutional deprivation has more profound effect on boys’ ability to develop secure attachment

Question 12

Reactive Attachment Disorder

Answer 12

inhibited type & disinhibited type

Question 13

inhibited type

Answer 13

withdrawn, doesn’t engage, lack of preference for caregiver, poor emotion regulation

Question 14

disinhibited type

Answer 14

lack of reticence around strangers, willingness to go off w/ stranger, clinging to unfamiliar adults

Question 15

institutionalized & brain EEG

Answer 15

lower alpha power/higher theta power seen in institutionalized; predictive of ADHD

Question 16

patterns of elevated power in low frequency (theta) & decreased power in high frequency (alpha) EEG:

Answer 16

• similar to profile of ADHD

- representing maturational lag in development

Question 17

before 24 mths

Answer 17

if placed in foster care before 24 mths, children showed EEG activity in the alpha band that was comparable to never institutionalized children

Question 18

high quality foster care

Answer 18

can (at least partially) remediate early effects of severe neglect on: attachment, mental health outcomes, emotion expression, cognitive ability, brain activity