Disruption to attachment

Disruption to attachment

1. Physical seperation

   • Robertsons (1967-1973)
     • John
       • 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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     • Laura
       • Alternates between calm and distress
       • Begged to go home
       • Two years old

2. 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