Deprivation and institutionalisation Flashcards
What is bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation?
He argues that if the child’s monotropic attachment is disrupted during the critical period, it will result in negative consequences that will affect the child’s emotional, social and intellectual skills.
What is the critical period?
An infants first 30 months to form an attachment
What is deprivation?
When an attachment bond is formed between an infant and caregiver but is broken later in life.
What results in deprivation?
Delinquency: Behaviour that is outside social norms e.g petty crime
Low IQ and unable to show empathy towards others
What is institutionalisation?
When children are cared for by the state
What is privation?
Complete absence of emotional care, the infant cannot form an attachment
Evaluate bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation
- Alpha bias, he exaggerates his work on the mother rather than the father
What is the internal working model?
A template for future relationships that is formed from the monotropic relationship with the mother because that is the first and most important relationship the infant has.
Why might an infant have an ineffective internal working model and what would this result in?
Deprivations caused by prolonged separations from the mother causes an infant to struggle forming an internal working model which results in unsuccessful adult relationships and trouble with parenting skills.
What is an example of institutional privation in the real word?
The fall of the romanian government in 1990 meant that women were instructed to have as many babies as possible but had to give them away to the state due to poverty which lead to 170,000 orphans living in privation in orphanages. They lacked physical and emotional care, many were malnourished and abused. Some were adopted by western families.
