Deprivation and institutionalisation

• Maternal deprivation - Bowlby


  44 thieves

  if deprivation is associated with behaviour disorders

  • 44 criminals(thieves) and 44 non criminals
  • 14 of 44 criminals diagnosed as being affection less psychopaths
  • 86% of these had experienced deprivation

  link between separation and later social maladjustment
• Maternal deprivation - Rutter


  romanian orphans

  • 165 kids who spent early years in orphanage
  • 111 adopted age 2 rest adopted age 4
  • development measured regularly
  • delayed development when adopted

  institutionalisation can have severe long term effects on development
• Maternal deprivation - Zeenah et al


  Bucharest project

  • almost 100 children aged 12-31 months
  • 90% spent most of life in orphanage vs control group who never been to an orphanage
  • 74% control securely attached
  • 19% experimental securely attached
• Bowlby 44 thieves AO3


  + helped practice in hospital - visiting hours are more flexible when children remind in hospital over long periods of time

  
  

  -contradictory research - Lewis - didn't find early deprivation caused by prolonged separation from primary caregiver

  
  

  -Bowlbys findings are correlations - can't establish cause and effect

  
  

  -privation not deprivation - some of 44 thieves may have been 'prived' deprivation may be less damaging
• Rutter romanian orphans AO3

  + real world application to social services - Singer et al. - children are securely attached to adopted mothers and biological family

  +longitudinal - occurred over many years

  -generalisation
• Maternal deprivation - Goldfarb


  lower IQ scores amongst those that remained in institutions compared to most that were fostered