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• Substitutes for emotional care


  • None are as good as the real thing
• Delayed intellectual development

  Due to the deprivation, children often have low cognitive functions and a low IQ
• Delayed social development

  Behaviour is often delinquent and outside of social norms
• Affectionless psychopaths


  Lack any remorse for their actions, and as the condition is untreatable, it can have serious consequences for those around the sufferer
• Consequences of deprivation

  • Delayed social development
  • Delayed intellectual development
  • Delayed emotional development
• Psychological damage is inevitable past the critical period
• Critical period

  If an attachment is disrupted or not formed with a mother figure (who provides adequate care) in the first 30 months of life, then it is too late and the child will possibly never form any attachments at all
• Delayed emotional development

  Children who had maternal deprivation could not experience guilt or strong emotion is known as affectionless psychopathy
• The Theory of maternal deprivation was proposed by Bowlby
• Bowlby used the term maternal deprivation for the separation or loss of a mother
• There is a risk of psychological damage up until the age of 5