Deprivation
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- Created on: 03-12-12 14:50
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- Deprivation
- Short-term consequences
- Separated from carer for short time e.g. hospitalisation/ holiday
- Robertson + Bowlby (1952)
- 1. Protest: immediate acute distress + crying on separation
- 2. Despair: unhappy + cries quietly
- 3. Detachment: apparent recovery - rejects carer on return
- Replicated many times
- Significant implications for healthcare professionals
- Well-documented description - how cope with distressing circumstances
- Children 7 months - 3 years = most vulnerable
- Schaffer (1996) - characteristics predisposing children to suffer
- male (early childhood) / female (early adolescence)
- suffers repeated separations
- history family conflict
- 'difficult' temperament
- Schaffer (1996) - characteristics predisposing children to suffer
- Long-term consequences
- Bowlby (1953) - maternal deprivation hypothesis: negative developmental + cognitive consequences if deprivation when 1st attachments = formed
- Attachments = formed 6-36 months - impairments in ability to form later relationships
- Common separation: divorce
- Studies of children with divorced parents - negative life outcomes e.g. lower academic achievement + delinquency
- Data = correlational - doesn't show that separation following divorce causes negative effects
- Studies of children with divorced parents - negative life outcomes e.g. lower academic achievement + delinquency
- Schaffer (1996) - factors to reduce effects of separation:
- Regular contact with absent parent
- Stable parent
- Reduced parental conflict
- Avoidance of further disruption e.g. moving schools
- Bowlby (1953) - maternal deprivation hypothesis: negative developmental + cognitive consequences if deprivation when 1st attachments = formed
- Short-term consequences
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