Psychologists study early relationships and how these affect later development. One way to do this is to look at the effects of emotional deprivation (or privation) and how negative effects may be reversed to restore emotional health. This is at the core of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. The project sought to show how children who experienced extreme early emotional deprivation in institutional care did recover in terms of their cognitive functions and psychiatric symptoms if they were placed in foster care rather than remaining in institutions.
Discuss what research with Romanian orphans has shown about the effects of institutionalisation.
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