Disruption to attachment - created from Mind Map

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Physical seperation

Robertsons (1967-1973)

John

Laura

Resisdential nursery

Father visted regularly

Started refusing food and stopped playing

Screamed at mother

Continued to have outbursts of anger towards mother months later

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Alternates between calm and distress

Begged to go home

Two years old

Emotional disruption

Bohman and sigvardsson (1979)

Studied 600 adopted children

26% classified as 'problem children'

10 years later, none were worse off that the rest of the population

Suggests early, negative effects were reversed

Disruption to attachment