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Disruption of attachment

1. SHORT TERM EFFECTS (SEPARATION)

   • Bowlby & Robertson 1952 - PDD model
     • Protest - child cries, calls for mother & panics.
     • Despair - child = apathetic (loses interest in surroundings)
     • Detachment - cries less, appears to recover.
       • When caregiver returns, child pushes them away.

2. LONG TERM EFFECTS (DEPRIVATION)

   • Bowlby 1953 - MDH
     • effects of early privation = permanent and irriversable
     • Deprivation of primary caregiver during sensitive period = harmful effects
       • on child's emotional,social & cognitive development
   • Bowlby 1944 - 44 juvenile thieves
     • compared backgrounds of 44 children who grew up to be delinquent/involved in crimes to a control grp of 44 who hadn't.
       • 32% of thieves were affectionless psychopaths
         • most of these had experienced separation before age of 5.
         • none of the control group were 'affectionless'
         • correlation between maternal deprivation in infancy and subsequent criminal behaviour in adolesence.
           • - data collection is retrospective (children/parents had to think back many years)
             • -sample size=not representative (gender bias)
           • -social desirability bias- parents portray their parenting skills in a positive light