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- Maternal deprivation (Bowlby)
- Children need a warm, intimate and continuous relationship with their mother to ensure sustained normal mental health
- A mothers love durino childhood is as important for mental health as vitamins and proteins are for physical health
- Any seperation can have serious consequences
- seperation vs deprivation
- seperatjon is when the child is not in the presence of the primary attachment figure
- brief seperations are not significant for development especially if the child is left with a substitute
- Extended separations can lead to deprivation
- Critical period
- seperation will have the deprivation effect if it happens before the age of 2.5 years and there is a risk up to age 5
- deprived children will become emotionally disturbed and long term psychological harm
- Relationship with the monotropic theory
- Bowlby said consequences of maternal deprivation cannot be reversed - relates to IWM
- Leads to low IQ (Bowlby described as retardation) And affectionless psychopathy
- 44 juvenile thieves - aim
- To investigate the long term effects of maternal deprivation on people in order to see whether delinquents have suffered deprivation
- 44 juvenile thieves - procedure
- Interviewed 44 children who were referred to a child protection program in London due to stealing
- Another group of 44 children acted as controls - they had been referred for psychological problems but had not yet committed crimes
- They interviewed parents to consider whether the children had been maternally deprived
- 44 juvenile thieves - findings & conclusion
- findings - some of the thieves were affectionless psychopaths, they lacked normal signs of affection, shame and responsibility - enables stealing
- 86% of affection less thieves experienced frequent seperation compared to 17% other thieves and 2% non thieves
- Conclusion - early separations are linked to affectionless psychopathy. Those with such mental disorders show little concern for others and are unable to form relationships