Attachment - institutionalisation Flashcards
What are the effects of institutionalisation?
Some children are cared for in orphanages and residential homes rather than by parents and families.
Institutional care is regarded as a phenomenon in its own right because it often involves privation and deprivation effects.
What is disinhibited attachment?
The behaviour of institutionalised children is often specific to the environment in which they are cared for. They are often characterised as clingy attention seeking behaviour and indiscreet sociability to adults.
What was Goldfarbs research?
He compared 15 children raised in institutions from six months until they were 3 1/2 years old with 15 children who went straight from their natural mothers into foster care.
By age, the socially isolated children scored worse on measures of abstract thinking social maturity role following and social sociability.
Socially isolated children continue to perform poorly between the ages of 10 and 14 with average IQ of 72 compared to the other group of children who had an average IQ of 95.
What was Bowlby’s research?
Compared 44 juvenile thieves with non-thieves who had experienced emotional problems bowel be found that 32% of the thieves exhibited affection the psychopathy characterised by lack of social conscience.
What was Rutter study on Romanian orphans?
Performed a longitude study of Romanian orphans that were adopted by families assessing how their physical and mental development was affected by the age of adoption.
What was Romania like in the mid 1900s?
Abortion contraception or were unable to cope with the influx of children.
The orphanages were lacking in many physical and emotional factors for example the children are split into age group so they didn’t have to access to older figures.
Many children were taken in by British couples where they were monitored by psychologist such as Ritter et al.
What were the findings of Rutters study?
50% of Romanian orphans poor in cognitive functioning at initial assessment most were underweight.
At age 4 the Romanian orphan showed great improvement in physical and cognitive development with the orphans adopted before six months of age during as well as the British adopted children.
What was the conclusion of Rutter study?
Negative effects of institutionalisation can be overcome by sensitive nurturing.
