Reference code: | PT/FB/BL-2006-013.06 |
Location: | Arquivo PCA - Pasta 15/2006
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Title:
| Effects of institutionalization on infants’ physical growth, mental development, temperament, neuro-endocrine, and social-emotional functioning: Preliminary data
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Publication year: | 2009
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URL:
| http://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/associations/6344/files/events/santiago/boa_santiago.pdf
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Abstract/Results: | ABSTRACT:
Clinicians and researchers have been documenting the deleterious effects of institutional rearing on multiple developmental domains of young children. Most of these studies were conducted in very deprived institutional settings. In Portugal there is a lack of empirical evidence about the developmental effects in children reared in institutions. The sample is composed by fifty children early deprived from parental care and placed in institutions from birth to 30 months. Two groups of children were assessed: children newly admitted at the institution (Group 1) and children that had been at the institution for at least 6 months (Group 2). The measures were: a) standard measures of weight, height, head circumference for physical growth; b) the Bayley Scales of Infant Development III for assessment of cognitive development; c) saliva samples for determination the cortisol levels; d) Ages & Stages Questionnnaires – SE for social-emotional development (Squires,Bricker & Twombly, 2002), and the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (Bates, Freeland & Lounsbury,1979) to assess temperament. Physical growth and neuro-cognitive functioning differences will be examined between groups. In addition, intra-group variability in neuro-cognitive functioning and social emotional development will be explored within Group 2 as a function of the length of institutional rearing.
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Accessibility: | Document exists in file
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Copyright/Reproduction:
| By permission
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Language:
| eng
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Author:
| Soares, I.
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Secondary author(s):
| Silva, J., Marques, S., Baptista, J., Pereira, M., Mesquita, A. R., Teixeira, D., Sousa, N., Henriques, M. R., Palha, J., Dias, P., Martins, C.
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Document type:
| Abstract book
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Number of reproductions:
| 1
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Reference:
| Soares, I., Silva, J., Marques, S., Baptista, J., Pereira, M., ... Martins, C. (2009). Effects of institutionalization on infants’ physical growth, mental development, temperament, neuro-endocrine, and social-emotional functioning: Preliminary data. In Abstract book of the 40th International Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Santiago do Chile (pp. 186-187). Society for Psychotherapy Research.
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Indexed document: | No
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Keywords: | Institutionally reared children / Infant / Development / Temperament / Neuroendocrinology
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