Maternal deprivation

Question 1

What does bowlbys theory of maternal deprivation explain

Answer 1

What happens if this attachment is broken or never formed

Question 2

What is maternal deprivation

Answer 2

• disruption of the attachment bond due to separation o an infant from its mother
• prolonged separations from their attachment figure before the age of 2 1/2 years
• suffer serious and irrevocable damage and emotional, social and intellectual developments

Question 3

Why might a infant be separated from their attachment figure

Answer 3

• mother hospitalised cold staying in foster care
• death of parent
• parent leaving

Question 4

process of Short term effect of maternal deprivation

Answer 4

Described Initial distress caused by separation
Protest - child cry’s/screams/protests
- cling to aren’t to stop them

Despair - protesting stop and appear calmer also though still upset
- refuses others tempt for comfort
- seems withdrawn and disinterested

Detachment - accept loss
- start to engage with other people
- reject caregiver on return
- show stronger signs of anger

Question 5

What is the short term affect on attachment

Answer 5

Disruption to the child

Question 6

Long term effect of maternal deprivation

Answer 6

• irreversible damage to childs development

Question 7

Long term effects on emotional development

Answer 7

• negatively affected Leung to affectional psychopathy
• inability to experience empathy, affection and concern for others

Question 8

Long term effects on social development

Answer 8

• results in difficulty forming healthy relationships
• lack of an healthy internal working model

Question 9

Long term effect on intellectual development

Answer 9

• imparted intellectual development eg low IQ

Question 10

what is the 44 juvenile thieves study

Answer 10

procedure:
- compared 44 juvenile thieves with a control of 44 children who where emotionally troubled but didnt show any antisocial behviour
- assed by psychologists and their parents were intervied by social workers about their early childhood

findings:
- 16 of the thieves where affectionless psychopaths while their was 0 affectionless psychopaths in control group
- 86% of the 16 affectionless psychopaths thieves had experienced early and prolonged (more than 6 months) seperations from their mothers
- 17% of remaining theives and 4% of the control group had experienced seperations

conclusion:
- link between early separations and later social and emotional maladjustment
- seperations lead to antisocial behviour eg theft and most severe cases, affectionless pychopathy

Question 11

supporting research for short term effects - robertson and robertson

Answer 11

procedure:
- filmed and studied various children under the age of 3 during short seperation
- john aged 17 months stayed for 9 days in a residential nursery
- staff had little time to attend to his personal needs

found:
- behaviour over the 9 days = initially distressed(protest), upset throughout most of the stay, rejected his mum on the 9 th day(detachment)
- anxious when his mum collected him

long term effects:
- might recover if he does not experince seperation again
- separation left him full of anxiety

Question 12

strength of maternal deprivation

Answer 12

real world replication
- bowlbys and the robertsons had impact on the way people thought about child rearing practises
- eg understanding of children needs following divorce and allowing parents to stay with children at hospital

Question 13

findoings of jui