Post Institutional Syndrome
Dr. Ronald Federici also works extensively in forensic neuropsychology and has served as anexpert witness in cases involving the assessment and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury or other neurological disorders. Dr. Ronald Federici lectures nationally and internationally on matters pertaining to developmental neuropsychology and severe neuropsychiatric disorders of children, particularly children from post-institutionalized settings. He is regarded as the country’s expert in neuropsychiatric evaluations of internationally adopted children, particularly children from Eastern Europe.
He has a special interest in Romanian and Russian orphans, and has evaluated well over a thousand Eastern European adoptees and those still residing in their respective countries. Dr. Ronald Federici has appeared on numerous national television and radio shows such as 20/20, Turning Point, Night Line, Good Morning America, British Broadcasting Corporation, as well as publishing in magazines and newspapers around the world regarding the institutional crises in various countries, particularly Eastern Europe. Dr. Ronald Federici has published various articles in addition to his book entitled “Help for the Hopeless Child: A Guide for Families (With Special Discussion for Assessing and Treating the Post-Institutionalized Child)”. He has developed the concepts of “Institutional Autism: An Acquired Syndrome” in addition to researching extensively the “Neuropsychology of Bonding and Attachment Disorders”.
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Not only does institutional syndrome effect adults, but it effects children as well. After being in an orphanage for an extended period of time, children grow accustom to life there just like convicts grow accustom to prison. Institutional Syndrome leads to many other psychological disorders.
It seems that Dr. Federici is a very influential man in the field of psychology. Has he made any major breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain like Freud?
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