Attachment - Maternal deprivation

Question 1

Maternal deprivation

Answer 1

• Emotional intellectual consequence of separation between child and mother.
• Continuous care is essential for normal psychological development.
• Prolonged separation can cause serious damage to emotional and intellectual development

Question 2

The critical period

Answer 2

• First 2 and half years as critical period for psychological development
• If child is separated from mother and absent from substitute care and deprived of emotional care for an extended period, psychological damage was inevitable.

Question 3

Deprivation

Answer 3

• Separation or loss of the mother
• Failure to develop an attachment
• Had an attachment and lost it

Question 4

Privation

Answer 4

• Occurs when a child never has an opportunity to form a relationship or attachment with a parent figure at all.