- Relatively positively adapted children:
deprivation has led to
attempts to adapt by appropriate means, to some autonomy and to finding sources
of satisfaction in a socially acceptable way. Good adaptation may fail during changes - new conditions
that the child is not used to and its underdeveloped
ability to adapt may not suffice these new situations
- children with
a direct increase in unsaturated needs:
Child manifests itself with maldaptive behavior in
the area of the unsatisfacted need (attempts to attract attention, intrusiveness) or in general
behavior (total restlessness, hyperactvity); commonly deprived needs are emotional and social, so the behavior is mostly targeted to fulfill these needs. On the other hand interst in school work is on decline; these children are noticeable with both bad behavior and worse school performance (that does not match
intelligence).
- children with
a substitutive increase in the intensity of other tendencies:
manifested
particularly by aggressiveness, opposition, destructive tendencies, explosions
of anger, cruelty, increased nutritional
needs…;
„manifestations of primitive affects uncontrolled by anxiety and conscience.“
- passive, apathetic, "attenuated“ type:
a group of
symptoms of regressive nature (sucking finger, enuresis and encopresis, automatisms, anorexia); children are detached, reserved in attempts for contact, introverted, sometimes
"strikingly nice and kind"; children seem silent and obedient, sometimes even
frightened, infantile, indifferent to success and failure, without initiative, may even appear retarded in more
severe cases
- Socially hyperactive type:
In the context
of a poorly stimulating environment, children try to seek the maximum
supply of social incentives and to attract
attention; but they do not know the stability of contact, emotional attachment,
social interest is rather chaotically dispersed, communication and social
behavior remain at a lower level.
- Socially provocative type
The need for attention and contact is manifested in a disturbing or
violent manner towards educators, or aggression
towards other children (as competitors); children may appear
defiant, "uncontrollable", but in individual contact with educator they may act as "exchanged" – kind and affectionate. Later, they
tend to get to unbearable
life situations.
