In other words, some high -
risk children may have benefited
from the intervention by enhancing their social behaviors and others may have benefited by developing a more adaptive stress response in anticipation of a social
stressor.
Children reared in a high - quality caregiving ecology are set on a positive developmental path that has the potential to produce long - term positive outcomes.68 Already vulnerable
from the experiences of maltreatment and other environmental
risk factors (for example, poverty and its associated
stressors), the development of foster children is further compromised if they experience more trauma and instability while in care.