This is the second blog post concerning influential child psychiatrist, Michael Rutter, particularly his work on the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study. Last week’s post provided the background to the ERA study. Today, we look at the bad news and the good news, i.e. recovery is achievable with good care. Firstly, more about Michael Rutter and why he is…
Month: July 2017
The English and Romanian Adoptee Study: Empirical evidence on the impact of abuse and neglect
Over the next couple weeks, I am going to focus on the work of some of the leading thinkers in our field – beginning with English child psychiatrist, Professor Michael Rutter (now aged 83). The starting point is his work on the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study. Rutter is little-known by child protection/OoHC researchers but nonetheless a very important…