chapter 8 - effects of institutionalisation

Question 1

what is privation?

Answer 1

the failure to form a stable attachment

Question 2

what study investigated the long term effects of poor quality institutional care?Aim?

Answer 2

Rutter 2007
Aim- to investigate the short and long term effects of poor quality institutional care and privation on children social,emotional and physical development

Question 3

what was Rutters method?

Answer 3

method- 165 romanican children placed in an institution form a very young age,usually received poor physical and emotional care
-these children were then compared to a control group of 54 uk children who were all adopted before 6 months old

Question 4

how were the romanian children assessed?

Answer 4

assessed at 4,6 and 11 years of age on measures of social,emotional and cognitive physical functioning

Question 5

what were the results of Rutters study?

Answer 5

• evidence of physical effects on the institution such as student growth and being underweight
• by 4yrs old the romanian children the were adopted before 6months appeared to catch up well,however the children adopted after 6 months showed poorer emotional care

Question 6

what is disinhibited attachment?

Answer 6

where a child shows little fear of strangers

Question 7

what was the conclusion of Rutters experiment?

Answer 7

there are negative effects of poor insituional care but these effects can be recovered if a child is adopted early enough

Question 8

evaluation points of rutters experiment?

Answer 8

• major strength is that it gave a natural opportunity to study the major effects of institution care
• children came from a limited sample & we know very little about the chiders history before the experiment

Question 9

what was Tizards aim ?

Answer 9

to investigate the impact of being raised in a home that provided good quality psychical care but poor emotional care

Question 10

Tizards method?

Answer 10

65 romanian children were raised in a children home from 4 months old up tp 4yrs old and they were compared to a control group who had spent all their lives in their own families

Question 11

results of Tizards study?

Answer 11

initial- the children in institutional care showed abnormal behaviours towards adults
later effects-95% showed secure attachment after 8 years to an adoptive mother
46% showed close attachment to biological mother after 8 years