Recovering from early deprivation: Attachment mediates effects of caregiving on psychopathology

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 683-693

  McGoron, Lucy ^a   Gleason, Mary Margaret ^b   Smyke, Anna T ^b   Drury, Stacy S ^b   Nelson III, Charles A ^c   Gregas, Matthew C ^c   Fox, Nathan A ^d   Zeanah, Charles H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

attachment; caregiving; early childhood; institutionalization; psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MENTAL DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REARING;

ADOPTION; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, ABANDONED; CHILD, INSTITUTIONALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; ORPHANAGES; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER; ROMANIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER;

EID: 84862681308     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: 15275418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2012.05.004     Document Type: Article

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