A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Foster Care And...

In the U.S. 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system, as of 2012, more than 58,000 children in the U.S. foster care system were placed in institutions or group homes, not in traditional foster homes (CCAI, 2012). Can these children developmental need be meet in institutions and enable children to make sucker attachments? The American Journal of Psychiatry’s article â€Å"A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Foster Care and Institutional Care for Children With Signs of Reactive Attachment Disorder† examines signs of emotionally withdrawn and indiscriminately social reactive attachment disorder in three groups of young Romanian children that were abandoned by their parents. The placement of children into an institution was made by Romanian child protective officials. The research group ensured that no child, once placed in foster care, through the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, would be returned to an institutional setting , either during or after the study (Smyke, 2012). The article follows perfect experimental design according to Introductory Psychology (Manley 2010). Three groups were used in each condition of the independent variable which is the condition of care each child receives. The three groups were: children that were placed into institutionalized care, children placed into foster care, and children who were raised in their biological families. The children raised in their biological families were born at the sameShow MoreRelatedUnderstanding Reactive Attachment Disorder ( Dsm )2831 Words   |  12 Pages Understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder An L. WineKing Liberty University Abstract This paper is a review of how attachment disorders were first defined in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM) in 1980, and how the descriptions have evolved over the past 30 years of research efforts which have provided new insights into the disorder. The main attachment disorder discussed is Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), that has recently been expanded to