CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bowlby argues that there is a link between maternal deprivation and deviant or anti-social behaviour. In his view, a child needs a close, continuous relationship with its primary carer (which Bowlby assumed would be the mother) from birth to the age of 5 in order to develop normally.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis suggests that continual disruption of the attachment between infant and primary caregiver (i.e. mother) could result in long term cognitive, social, and emotional difficulties for that infant. Bowlby originally believed the effects to be permanent and irreversible.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their caregivers have a tremendous impact that continues throughout life. He suggested that attachment also serves to keep the infant close to the mother, thus improving the child’s chances of survival.

Detailed explanation-4: -Causes, incidence, and risk factors Most cases are caused by dysfunctional caregiver interaction, poverty, child abuse, and parental ignorance about appropriate child care. Such cases are considered “nonorganic” failure to thrive.

Detailed explanation-5: -Drawing on concepts from ethology, cybernetics, information processing, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysts, John Bowlby formulated the basic tenets of the theory. He thereby revolutionized our thinking about a child’s tie to the mother and its disruption through separation, deprivation, and bereavement.