Failure to form attachment (privation)
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- Created on: 11-05-14 18:03
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- Failure to form attachment (privation)
- Genie
- locked in a room by her father until she was about 13yrs old
- she never fully recovered socially and lacked social responsiveness
- locked in a room by her father until she was about 13yrs old
- Czech twins
- spent the first 7 years of their lives locked up by a stepmother and were unable to talk when found
- then well cared for by two loving sisters, by age 14 had near-normal intellectual and social functioning
- by age 20 they were above average intelligence and had excellent relationships with members of foster family
- Hodges and Tizard
- longitudinal natural experiment
- followed a group of 65 children placed in institutional care when less than 4months old
- home had a high turnover of staff, care givers were told NOT to form attachments with children
- age 16 - those who had been adopted had close attachments to their families
- children who returned to their natural homes were less likely to be attached
- both groups of ex-institutional children had problems with peers (e.g. less likely to have a best friend
- Rutter at al.
- studied a group of 100 Romanian orphans
- children who were adopted by British families before the age of 6 months showed 'normal' social development
- children adopted after 6months showed disinhibited attachments and had problems with peers
- suggests can recover if given the opportunity
- however, continued failure to form attachments can have severe long term effects
- Genie
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