Rutter highlighted the other forms of deprivation found in institutional care and the complexity of separation distress; and suggested that anti-social behaviour was not linked to maternal deprivation as such but to family discord.
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In 1972, Rutter published'Maternal Deprivation Reassessed', which New Society describes as " a classic in the field of child care " in which he evaluated the maternal deprivation hypothesis propounded by Dr John Bowlby in 1951.
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In 1972, Rutter published'Maternal Deprivation Reassessed', which New Society describes as " a classic in the field of child care " in which he evaluated the maternal deprivation hypothesis propounded by Dr John Bowlby in 1951.
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For example those familiar with the concept of'maternal deprivation'would know that'monotropy'is not a tenet of the attachment theory, so what is the point of arguing the point when it is already established ?-This is a fundamental issue.
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A direct correlation has been established between the severity of behavioral problems with the age at which adoption occurs; adoptions that occur in later life with more extensive maternal deprivation have more difficulties growing up than other children.
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The importance of these refinements of the maternal deprivation hypothesis was to reposition it as a " vulnerability factor " rather than a causative agent, with a number of varied influences determining which path a child would take.
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Kanner's reuse of " autism " led to decades of confused terminology like " infantile schizophrenia ", and child psychiatry's focus on maternal deprivation led to misconceptions of autism as an infant's response to " refrigerator mothers ".
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The importance of these refinements of the maternal deprivation hypothesis was to reposition it as a " vulnerability factor " rather than a causative agent, with a number of varied influences determining which path a child will take.
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On pages 550 and 551 Rutter firstly runs through the background, including maternal deprivation and what he sees as the importance of that, and then says " The trilogy on attachment took matters forward in five key ways ".
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The basic argument is that Bowlby wrote a mongoraph in 1951 called " Maternal Care and Mental Health " in which he expounds a hypothesis known as'maternal deprivation'which was very controversial over a number of years and for many reasons.
