) Give an Understanding of Your Feelings Regarding Maternal Deprivation.
Assignment 3:
1) Give an understanding of your feelings regarding maternal deprivation.
“Maternal depravation” has been used to describe a whole range of situations in which the infant is deprived of his/her relationship with its mother/ primary carer.
Bowlby’s theory of “Maternal depravation” was founded on the hypothesis, that if a child is detached on a physical and emotional level from its primary carer that this will have long term effects emotionally for that child. According to Bowlby this detachment will see an increase in disruptive and defiant behaviour as well as a detachment between themselves and their children in the future. Bowlby even goes as far as to suggest that the affected child could possibly grow into an affectionless psychopath lacking and social conscience.
Bowlby based his research on a group of children who had been referred to his clinic for stealing (Juvenile thieves). Bowlby found that 32% of them were indeed lacking any conscious understanding or empathy towards the society in which they inhabited and were a part of.
86% apparently had indeed experienced early separation (if only for a week before the age of five). And in contrast only 17% of these children had not been deprived during their early years.
On this basis Bowlby claimed that maternal depravation would have the following consequences on the child:-
* emotionally and physically aggressiveness,
* Depression,
* Delinquency,
* Dependency anxiety (clinging),
* Dwarfism (retarded growth),
* Affectionless psychopath (showing no feelings for others),
* Intellectual retardation and,
* Social maladjustment.
Maternal Deprivation has always been an emotive subject giving rise to extremes of opinion, for example, in 1951 Bowlby concluded that “..Mother love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and proteins for physical health” however at the other end of the scale Casler (1968) concludes “The human organism does not need maternal
1) Give an understanding of your feelings regarding maternal deprivation.
“Maternal depravation” has been used to describe a whole range of situations in which the infant is deprived of his/her relationship with its mother/ primary carer.
Bowlby’s theory of “Maternal depravation” was founded on the hypothesis, that if a child is detached on a physical and emotional level from its primary carer that this will have long term effects emotionally for that child. According to Bowlby this detachment will see an increase in disruptive and defiant behaviour as well as a detachment between themselves and their children in the future. Bowlby even goes as far as to suggest that the affected child could possibly grow into an affectionless psychopath lacking and social conscience.
Bowlby based his research on a group of children who had been referred to his clinic for stealing (Juvenile thieves). Bowlby found that 32% of them were indeed lacking any conscious understanding or empathy towards the society in which they inhabited and were a part of.
86% apparently had indeed experienced early separation (if only for a week before the age of five). And in contrast only 17% of these children had not been deprived during their early years.
On this basis Bowlby claimed that maternal depravation would have the following consequences on the child:-
* emotionally and physically aggressiveness,
* Depression,
* Delinquency,
* Dependency anxiety (clinging),
* Dwarfism (retarded growth),
* Affectionless psychopath (showing no feelings for others),
* Intellectual retardation and,
* Social maladjustment.
Maternal Deprivation has always been an emotive subject giving rise to extremes of opinion, for example, in 1951 Bowlby concluded that “..Mother love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and proteins for physical health” however at the other end of the scale Casler (1968) concludes “The human organism does not need maternal