Deprevation

Deprevation

1. Deprivation is losing something you once had. Also it can be a disruption to the attachment.

2. The robertsons made a series of films of young children where they where separated from their primary attachment figure.

   • They found most showed signs of distress but many adjusted to life and become reluctant to part with foster mums (Jane, Lucy, Thomas & Kate). Little John reacted the most violently and breaks down, cries, refuses food and drink.

3. Skeels and Dye found that when children with low IQ were transferred to a home for mentally retarded adults their IQ increased possibly because the adults provided the children with emotional care.

4. Not all children are affected by emotional disruption in the same way. Bowlby looked at 60 children under the age of four who contracted TB hence had to have a prolonged stay in hospital. The nurses at the hospital could not provide alternative emotional care and the children were visited once a week.

   • When these children were assessed in early adolescence, 63% of the TB group were maladjusted than other children, However, there were no significant differences in terms of intellectual development.