Psychosocial Treatment of Children in Foster Care: A Review

A substantial number of children in foster care exhibit psychiatric difficulties. Recent epidemiologi-cal and historical trends in foster care, clinical findings about the adjustment of children in foster care, and adult outcomes are reviewed, followed by a description of current approaches to treatment and extant empirical support. Available interventions for these children can be categorized as either symptom-focused or systemic, with empirical support for specific methods ranging from scant to substantial. Even with treatment, behavioral and emotional problems often persist into adulthood, resulting in poor functional outcomes. We suggest that self-regulation may be an important mediat-ing factor in the appearance of emotional and behavioral disturbance in these children

An experimental examination of a hypothesis connecting visual pattern recognition and apparent motion

The validity of a hypothesis connecting the existence of a certain visual apparent-motion effect and the capacity of the visual system to recognize, in a special way, objects that have undergone certain transformations is subjected to experimental test. The objects under consideration are random-dot patterns and the transformations under consideration are rigid motions of the plane. For the two subjects examined, the hypothesis is verified, with confidence coefficient 90 %, in 278 cases out of 279