what are we doing to help instittutionalised Children and their families?

http://www.rainbowkids.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=423

This article is like a guidance for parents who have adopted children who have previously institutionalised and stating how to help them attach and grow into a healthy normal child.

Many other organizations such as Childline, social services, NSSPC have being founded by the goverment to help children who have being institutionalised but also those who have being abused.

study 3: Genie by Curtis extreme Privation

http://as-psychology.pbworks.com/w/page/9174253/DeprivationPrivation

This article explains abit about effects of privation and meternal deprevation. It also focuses on the study of 'Genie' by Curtis. This study shows the extremes of privation and how it can effect the child's growth.

study 2: Keith E Rice - Romanian orphanes

http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/romanian_orphans_investigation.html

This is also another good study that would be useful because Rice focused on how instutionalisation can be good or bad depending on the conditions also he focused on separation and how institutions can cause maternal deprevation which will link into my case sudy on on Genie.

Study 1 : into Instituionalised Children

http://www.holah.karoo.net/hodgesstudy.htm

Jill Hodges and Barbara Tizard (1989)

Social and Family Relationships of Ex-institutional Adolescents

This study is important to what i am trying to find out because Hodges and Tizard conducted a longitudinal study on children who have being instutionalised and some got adopted but many stayed in the instutional and others went back to their orginal parents. They compared how well these children grew up and attached.

Research for project

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/96apr/orphan/weisorp.htm

'When Parents Are Not in the Best Interests of the Child'
This article talks about the history of children institutuions and how they have changed over time. I liked this article because it mentions how institutions in past may have not being able to actually help kids who had psychological problems thus ended up in mental institutuins or even worse. It also brings up the question about wether some troubled children are better of institutionalised than living with families. It also give figures of the number of children in institutions comparing the past to now. I think this will be good information to use in my project.

Research for effects of institutiions

http://international.adoption.com/foreign/physician-detrimental-effects-of-institutions-orphanages.html

This website focuses on 'what is it about institutions that effect the child overall health and development'. I found this infromation usefull because its very close to what i am researching and usefull information to use when i write up my essay. I liked it also because many information on there has came from proffessional children doctors.

Response to Alex's comment

I will carry out a meta analysis which means that for my research i will be using research done by other people as this will be easy to access.

The studies i will be looking at closey to are 'Romanian orphanes','Tizard et al 1974-1989' and this was a longitudinal study on children who had grew up in institutions. Also for my Martenal privation section i will be using case studies such as 'Genie' and 'the Czechoslovakian twins'.

I also have someone who used to work for social services who i will be able to a ask a few question however she cannot give me specific details such as dates,names ect because of children protecting but she can give me an account of what she witnessed during the times she worked for social services.

New proposal for extended project

Due to changes of course i want to do in university i have decided to focus on something else for my extended project. As i want to now study psychology with child development.

For my extended project i have decided to focus on children who are brought up institutions also who suffer from deprevation, manily im going to look at sensitve cases such as 'Genie' and 'the romanian orphane'. I want to study how they attach and also their peer relationships when they get adopted and what their behaviour is like as they grow up. Most of my research i will get from research done by other psychologists.

Also i will be looking at what type of condition the child grew up in wether this affects what kind of person there will be in later life.

Proposal for extended project

My chosen study area for University is psychology and criminology and for my extended project i  have decided that i would like to study criminal behaviour. The question for my essay will be ''Do psychopaths commit crimes because its in their genes or is it the environment they are brought up in?''