The Social Adaptation of Institution Children

Bodman, Frank; Mackinlay, Margaret; Sykes, Kathleen E.

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“…Of course these memories did not extend back to infancy, but they may have reflected the subject's feelings about his early childhood. Bodman, MacKinlay, and Sykes (12) confirmed for English children what has generally been accepted in this country since the work of Goldfarb, that children placed in an institution at an early age fail to mature socially and personally at a normal rate.…”

Section: The Importance Of Early Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 79%

Chapter IV: Personality Development

Stagner¹

1952

Review of Educational Research

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Section: The Importance Of Early Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 79%

Chapter IV: Personality Development

Stagner¹

1952

Review of Educational Research

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“…Other studies of social and behavioral adjustment of orphans offer more details to explain background influences. One (Bodman et al, 1950) compared occupational adjustment and other behaviors for 51 young adults and 52 controls, all from England. During the first year of work, 14% of the orphans failed on the job and returned to the orphanage, compared with none of the controls.…”

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Research on the Psychological Effects of Orphanage Care: A Critical Review

McCall¹

1999

Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century

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This electronic copy of this chapter is produced by permission of Sage Publications, Inc. that will publish it as a part of a book on Rethinking Orphanages for the 21st Century edited by Richard B. McKenzie. All rights are reserved by the publisher, and no copies of any part of the material are to be made in any form, whether in hard copy or electronic form, without the express written permission of the publisher.

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A post-residential-treatment follow-up of socially and emotionally deviant adolescents in Israel

Kohen-Raz

Jonas

1976

J Youth Adolescence

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Fifty-five emotionally and socially deviant but normally intelligent adolescents who had spent 2-7 years in a children's and apprentice home in Israel were followed up 5-9 years after they had left the institution. Their postresidential social and vocational careers were evaluated by means of personal interviews, home visits, and reports from employers, and it was found that good adjustment was substantially related to family background variables (having lived with biological parents prior to residential placement, mutual positive relationship between parent and child, being first born) as well as to satisfactory behavior and performance in peer group, school, and workshop during residence. Level of intelligence, unrelated to overall adjustment, correlated positively with vocational status and income at followup. On the other hand, length of stay in the apprentice home had no impact on postresidential adaptation to work and society. Fewer than 10% of exinmates expressed retrospectively a negative attitude toward their stay in the institution. The importance of paying more attention to the eventual long-term and enduring impact of family relationship on the residential and postresidential behavior of adolescents is discussed, suggesting a shift of emphasis in evaluating factors involved in institutional treatment. Findings also indicate that later social and vocational success may be fairly predicted from observation of behavior during the stay in the institution.

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The Social Adaptation of Institution Children

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Chapter IV: Personality Development

Chapter IV: Personality Development

Research on the Psychological Effects of Orphanage Care: A Critical Review

A post-residential-treatment follow-up of socially and emotionally deviant adolescents in Israel

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