A prospective longitudinal study of Reactive Attachment Disorder following early institutional care: considering variable- and person-centered approaches.

ABSTRACT: Although the study of reactive attachment disorder (RAD) in early childhood has received considerable attention, there is emerging interest in RAD that presents in school age children and adolescents. We examined the course of RAD signs from early childhood to early adolescence using both variable-centered (linear mixed modeling) and person-centered (growth mixture modeling) approaches. One-hundred twenty-four children with a history of institutional care from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care, as well as 69 community comparison children were included in the study. While foster care was associated with steep reductions in RAD signs across development, person-centered approaches indicated that later

SUBMITTER: Guyon-Harris KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6344314 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature