Privation - Lack of attachment altogether where a child has been unable to form an attachment
Deprivation - An attachment is formed but broken later on in life
Short-term effects of seperation;
- Protests - Cries, screams when the parent leaves.
- Dispair - Child accepts the situation, becomes subdue and refuses comfort from others
- Deattachment - Child begins to engage with others but is wary. When caregiver returns, the child may reject them.
Long-term effect of seperation;
- Seperation anxiety - extreme clinginess when the parent/ primary caregiver leaves, the child becomes deattached from parent emotionally and/ or to adults generally.
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