Adolescent development following institutional care in the early years
Adolescents who had spent their early years in institutions and then been adopted or returned to birth parents were compared with matched adolescents without institutional care. Interviews, teacher questionnaires and assessments examined attachment, cognition and relationships. Outcomes differed by family placement; the formerly institutionalised group continued to show more emotional, behavioural and peer-relationship difficulties.
Limitations: Historical, non-randomised cohort combining adoption and return to birth parents. Results cannot isolate adoption’s causal effect. Shares participants with Tizard/Hodges journal publications.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis / longitudinal cohort
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: adolescents
Adoption context: Adoption after institutional care; comparison with return to birth parents
Programme: Tizard longitudinal study
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: attachment, institutional deprivation, mental health, Relationships
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England
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