Effects of Institutional Care

Institutionalising children has been shown to cause a wide range of problems for their development, well-being and longer-term outcomes. Institutional care does not adequately provide the level of positive individual attention from consistent caregivers which is essential for the successful emotional, physical, mental, and social development of children. This is profoundly relevant for children under 3 years of age for whom institutional care has been shown to be especially damaging. 

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Harmke Leloux-Opmeer, Chris H. Z. Kuiper, Hanna T. Swaab, Evert M. Scholte - Children and Youth Services Review,

The study consisted of a comparative follow-up study with a pretest-posttest design which explored the association between baseline child, family, and care characteristics and the psychosocial development of 121 schoolaged Dutch children during their first year of placement in foster care (FC), family-style group care (FGC), and residential care (RC).

Charles Nelson - Biological Psychiatry,

This talk, given by Dr Charles Nelson, focuses on two strands of work that reflect very different types of adversity: (1) the effects of early, profound psychosocial deprivation (including a review of the most recent findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an intervention for early institutionalization in Romania) and (2) the effects of growing up in a low resource urban center where children are exposed to a large number of both biological (e.g., malnutrition) and psychosocial (maltreatment) stressors (including a review of recent findings from a large study taking place in Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Yunfei Lou, Emily P. Taylor, , Simona Di Folco - Children and Youth Services Review,

This review explored the conceptualization, operationalization and measurement of resilience in children and adolescents living in residential care settings.

Mariana Incarnato y Andrés Segade - DONCEL,

El presente artículo busca describir brevemente las trayectorias de los adolescentes y jóvenes en su transición del sistema de cuidados alternativos a la vida adulta en América Latina.

Tony Xing Tan & Emily A. X. Robinson - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study investigated the relationship between congenital conditions and post-adoption mental disorder diagnosis and treatment in 235 female youth who were adopted from China about 15 years prior.

Agnes Cyril Msoka and Eleanor Holroyd - International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery,

The aim of this study was to explore factors affecting the wellbeing of institutionalized orphaned children in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Şenay Öztürk, Mine Ekinci - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing,

This study aims to observe the effect of structured education provided to improve self-esteem and hope on the self-esteem and the suicide probability of male adolescents living in orphanages.

Ravneet Kaur, Archana Vinnakota, Sanjibani Panigrahi, RV Manasa - Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine,

This cross-sectional descriptive study explores the behavioral and emotional problems in institutionalized children in India. 

Priyanka, Dr. Ashok Parasar, Dr. Roshan Lal Dewangan - International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research,

The aim of the current study was to find out level of self-esteem and of depression in adolescents living in orphanage home and to see the differences in self-esteem and depression level in orphan children and children living with parents.

Kabo Diraditsile, Mbongeni Nyadza - Child & Family Social Work,

This study sought to investigate the lived experiences of care leavers from institutional care facility in Botswana.