How Being Placed In An Orphanage Negatively Affects Mental Health?
How Being Placed In An Orphanage Negatively Affects Mental Health? Compared with non-orphaned youth, orphans have higher rates of childhood maladaptive or complicated grief, posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTS), depression, suicidal thoughts, and anxiety (Cluver et al., 2009; Cluver and Gardner, 2006; Cluver and Gardner 2007; Makame et al., 2002). How being an orphanage affects an