This presentation was given at Disability Rights International and the European Network on Independent Living's webinar on the right of all children to a family by Dr. Joan Kaufman, Director of Research of the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Professor at the Department of Psychiatry of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The presentation outlines the Consensus Statement Position on Group Care for Children and Adolescents of the American Orthopsychiatric Association and reviews the research on the detrimental effects of institutionalization on children from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project and other studies.
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