Nonverbal Processing and Social Competency in Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder

This study investigated decoding of facial and paralanguage expressions of emotion in children with and without reactive attachment disorder (RAD), Participants aged 5 to 19 years completed the Adult and Child Facial Expressions and Paralanguage subtests of the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accur...

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Published inBehavioral development bulletin (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 11 - 17
Main Authors Sheaffer, Beverly L, Golden, Jeannie A, Bridgers, Katharine T, Hall, Cathy W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Joseph D. Cautilli 2009
Development & Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavior Analysis
Subjects
Adopted Children
Attachment Disorders
Competence
Facial Expressions
Female
Foster Care
Foster Children
Human
Male
Social Cognition
Social Skills
nonverbal processing
reactive attachment disorder
paralanguage
decoding
facial expressions
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Summary:This study investigated decoding of facial and paralanguage expressions of emotion in children with and without reactive attachment disorder (RAD), Participants aged 5 to 19 years completed the Adult and Child Facial Expressions and Paralanguage subtests of the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2 (DANVA2; Nowicki, 1996), Groups included: 17 participants with RAD, 15 participants without RAD with foster care or adoptive histories, and 31 participants without RAD with typical histories, Multivariate analyses of variance were computed with group as the independent variable and subscale scores of the DANVA as the dependent variables. No statistically significant differences in decoding accuracy were found between the RAD group and either control group. The authors discuss implications of these findings.
ISSN:1942-0722
1942-0722
DOI:10.1037/h0100509