Reactive Attachment Disorder in UK children looked after
The thesis includes a review of attachment among non-institutionalised fostered and adopted children, development of measures of reactive attachment difficulties, studies of UK children in care and intervention feasibility work. The review found secure attachment comparable with normative samples, but more disorganisation than normative samples and less than institutionalised samples.
Limitations: The empirical care samples should not be treated as adoptee-only samples. Screening behaviours are not equivalent to clinical diagnoses. The summary distinguishes the adoptee-relevant review from broader care research and does not assign care-sample prevalence to adoptees.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: UCL looked-after-child reactive attachment research
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, Evidence synthesis, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Adoptee involvement
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