Background: An increasing number of children are placed in foster care (ie, a kin or nonkin
family home other than the biological parent) due to experiences of physical, sexual …

Early social isolation results in adult behavioral and cognitive dysfunction that correlates
with white matter alterations. However, how social deprivation influences myelination and …

This article presents an overview of the developmental outcomes of children adopted from
institutional care. The author describes how institutional care is a risk factor for typical …

Decades of research have shown that childhood experiences interact with our genetics to
change the structure and function of the brain. Within the range of normal experiences, this …

OBJECTIVES: To strengthen the evidence-base for policy and practice for support of
children outside of family care requires effective, efficient and sustainable mechanisms for …

Objective: Utilizing an experimental vignette design, this study assessed attitudes in the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan toward the implementation of foster care as an alternative to …

This thesis investigated the effect of early-life exposure to stress or corticosterone on fear
retention and extinction across two generations of infant rats. In the first series of …