institutionalisation and privation

institutionalisation and privation

1. institutional care is a place dedicated to a certain task for example looking after children who are waiting for adoption , this can often result in pivation

2. Study- psychologists conducted a longitudinal study on 65 children on the effect of institutonal care and attachments. There policy was not to have special relationships between staff and children and compared results to a control group. Findings showed that all children had privation. children who went back home had issues forming peer relation and displayed attention seeking behaviors. they concluded the importance of forming attachment early in life

3. longitudanal study

4. controlled observation- a critisism of this study is that it uses a controlled observation which lacks ecological validity as it cannot be applied to a real life situation this weakening the support for instituonal care

5. particepent harm the children in this study were not allowed to form attachments which could cause them to have long term psychological issues. this is unethical and weakens the support for ins. care

6. privation-when an attachment has failed to form

7. genie-she had been isolated and imprisoned by her farther until the age of 13. she was very underdeveloped (that of a 6 year old) her social and launguage skill remained 'retarded' despite fostering.lack of recovery can be explanes by her privation during the whole of the critical period (Bowlby)

8. case study- a case study is unique to one person and cannot be generalised it also lowers population vadility

9. koluchova twins- is conflicting evidence after mother died, cared for but to sisters until 18 months, then abused by farther until they were also 'retarded' but after having lots of care from fostering family's made full recovery

10. culteraly biased- twin study was only conducted in one country which means it cannot be generalised and loweres the population vadility