Zaccagnino Maria, Cussino Martina, Preziosa Alessandra, Veglia Fabio, Carassa Antonella
Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy; Faculty of Communication Sciences, Institute for Public Communication, University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland.
Clin Psychol Psychother. 2015 Mar-Apr;22(2):165-75. doi: 10.1002/cpp.1882. Epub 2014 Jan 7.
The experience of being removed from one's home and the transition to a residential care system pose enormous challenges for a child. Substantial evidence has been found regarding severe developmental effects due to early exposition to extreme psychosocial and affective deprivation. The research on Bowlby's theoretical proposals has highlighted the link between insecure, disorganized and atypical attachment patterns and children both living in foster care facilities and adopted out of those institutions. The goal of this pilot study is to investigate the attachment representation in an Italian sample of children in middle childhood (9-13 years old) who have been removed from their homes.
Two compared groups of children participated in this study. The first group was composed of 24 Italian children who had been removed from their homes. The second group, considered as the control group, was composed of 35 Italian children who had never been in foster care placement. The quality of children's attachment to their primary caregivers was assessed by the Child Attachment Interview, an innovative semi-structured interview that seeks to bridge the measurement gap identified in middle childhood
The children in foster care placement show a higher percentage of insecure and disorganized attachment representations and lower scores on the Child Reflective Functioning Scale.
The clinical implications and enhancements to effective intervention for foster children's caretaking are discussed.
被迫离开自己的家以及向寄宿照料系统过渡的经历给儿童带来了巨大挑战。有大量证据表明，早期遭受极端心理社会和情感剥夺会产生严重的发育影响。对鲍尔比理论建议的研究突出了不安全、混乱和非典型依恋模式与生活在寄养照料机构以及从这些机构中被领养的儿童之间的联系。这项试点研究的目的是调查意大利一个童年中期（9至13岁）被从家中带走的儿童样本中的依恋表征。
两组儿童参与了这项研究并进行比较。第一组由24名被从家中带走的意大利儿童组成。第二组被视为对照组，由35名从未接受过寄养安置的意大利儿童组成。通过儿童依恋访谈评估儿童对其主要照料者的依恋质量，这是一种创新的半结构化访谈，旨在弥合在童年中期发现的测量差距。
接受寄养安置的儿童表现出不安全和混乱依恋表征的比例更高，在儿童反思功能量表上的得分更低。
讨论了对寄养儿童照料的临床意义以及有效干预措施的改进。
