Institutional Care and Privation

Institutional Care and Privation.

Institutionalisation: can be the result of institutional care. An institution is a place dedicated to a task such as looking after children or the mentally ill. It is the place where people live for a period of time rather than daycare.

Study - Hodges and Tizard (EXPERIMENT)

Aim: They aimed to investigate the long-term effects of privation due to the institutionalisation, including the emotional and social effects in adolenscence.

Procedure:

• 65 children who had been taken into care before the age of 4 months formed an opportunity sample
• this was a natrualistic experiment using the matched pairs design as the institutionalised children were compared to the control group of children who were raised at home.
• By the age of 4, 24 children had been adopted
• 15 restored to their natural home and the rest remained in the institution
• Assessed at ages, 4,8 and 16 on emotional and…