Attachment - maternal deprivation Flashcards
What was Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis?
His theory states that disruption to the attachment bond can cause damage to the child’s development and that there are three types short-term separation, long-term deprivation and privation.
What is the disruption effect?
Short term separation is brief and temporary, Daycare or short periods of hospitalisation.
According to the circumstances, children will display the relatively clear set of behaviours from protest such as crying, lashing out screaming and clinging where the protest behaviour subsides and the infant becomes calmer and apathetic.
What is the PDD model?
The last stage is detachment where the infant resumes their response to the people but treats them rarely they might reject the caregiver on return and continue to display signs of anger.
What did Robertson and Robertson do?
They performed a study investigating maternal separation.
A child who had a stable relationship with the mother experienced severely distress when he spent nine days in a residential nursery following his mother’s hospitalisation.
His mother’s return appeared confused and tried to get away from her.
John appeared to have gone through the stages of the PD model and suffered serious irreversible damage.
What is long-term deprivation?
Happens when the children are separated from those who have formed an attachment with. Long-term deprivation can cause negative emotional effects..
A lengthy and permanent separation from an attachment figure happens to divorce or separation or other factors such as death or imprisonment.
What did rogers and Pryor found?
Found that children who experience more than two divorces have the lowestt adjustment rate and the most behavioural problems.
What is some contrasting research to this?
Richard concluded that well attachment disruption through divorce is more likely to result in resentment and stress. Death of an attachment figure is more likely to lead the depression.
What is privation?
Happens when children are not given the opportunity to form attachment bonds. This can have a very negative effect on children’s development case studies provide insight into privation.
Probation is the situation where no attachment bond has the opportunity to form.
What is the bulldog banks study?
Freud and Dann reported on a group of children who became known as the bulldog banks children they were six refugees age between three and four discovered by Russian troops at a concentration camp in what is known as the Czech Republic.
It was believed that the children were or are only a few months old and so had no time to form any attachments.
While at the reception centre for refugee children, it was decided that all six of the children would stay together at the bulldog bank centre in Sussex.
What was the children’s behaviour in the bulldog bank study?
Children would be highly aggressive and spit and hit adults who were trying to restrain them. They didn’t know what the toys were before and they destroyed them.
Their language was limited which increased levels of aggression and hostility. They would only engage with staff if they needed something.
Children were devoted to each other and were very fair.
What was the outcome of the bulldog Banks study?
With careful nurturing and support all children made rapid improvement they displayed consideration helpfulness. Eventually all the children were adopted and continue to make good progress weakening Bowllby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis because the children are covered from their early traumatic experiences.
What was the privation genie study?
Probation happens when children are not given the opportunity to form attachment bonds have a very negative effect on a children’s development.
Curtis and Rymer reported on a girl known as Jeannie who was denied human contact beaten and strapped to a potty seat until she was discovered at the age of 13.
Genie could not stand or speak, but most of her times spitting.
She began to develop some language skills and her IQ improved from 38 to 74 between 1971 and 1977.
What happened to Genie after she was 18?
She was returned to her mother, but only stayed for a few months before being accommodated in a series of foster homes where she was further abused. This led to further deprivation..\
