deprivation

Question 1

what is deprivation?

Answer 1

-loss of a primary attachment figure
-attachment is broken
-can be ST or LT
-LT can be irreversible

Question 2

What are the stages of short term deprivation?

Answer 2

-protest: kids showed great distress, crying for caregiver and panic stricken
-despair: became calmer but apathetic, showing little interest in anything. Rejecting comfort and self soothing eg thumb sucking
-detachment: coping with separation showing more interest in surroundings but still emotionally unresponsive- avoiding forming new attachments . Showed no interest in caregivers return

Question 3

long term deprivation?
-cause
-effect
-result

Answer 3

-divorce where there is no co-parenting, prison or death
-permanent effect
-poor internal working model as a model for future relationships

Question 4

How do we reduce effects of LT deprivation?

Answer 4

-provide a continuous substitute figure
-Daycare provide key workers for kids to attach to
-reduce time spent away from attachment figure
-Belsky: spend less time in daycare
-Rutter:minimise divorce conflict
-co parenting
-routines

Question 5

Supporting: Robertson 1953

Answer 5

when a child suffers deprivation they go through PDD in ST- credibility

Question 6

conflicting: Olsavsky et al 2013

Answer 6

-found kids who have been maternally deprived have similar response in the amygdala when seeing mum or stranger and were more indiscriminately friendly

Question 7

supporting: spitz 1946

Answer 7

-studied effects of being institutionalised= depressed kids
-especially when deprived of mother for over 3 months
-children who where only partially depressed took 2-3 months to readjust upon reuniting with mother

Question 8

supporting: spitz and wolf

Answer 8

-kids brought up in prison by parents had better outcomes than those brought up in institution
-shows need for single attachment

Question 9

supporting: Goldfarb 1955

Answer 9

-found earlier fostering led to more emotionally stable, secure, intelligent adolescence
-supports critical period

Question 10

Conflicting: Rutter 1972

Answer 10

-found it was the cause of separation and not separation itself that caused problems

Question 11

conflicting: robertson and robertson

Answer 11

found that given good quality care children need not go through PDD process and can fully recover from deprivation