Impact Of Maternal Deprivation on Adolescents' Psychosocial Development in the Buea Municipality, South West Region of Cameroon

The impact of maternal deprivation on adolescents’ psychosocial development in the Buea municipality, South West region. The objective soft his study were: tofindouthowmaternaldivorceinfluencesonthepsychosocialdevelopmentof adolescents, to investigate how maternal death influenced the psychosocial development of adolescents and to identify the influence of maternal illness on thepsychosocialdevelopmentofadolescents.Thisstudymadeuseofthesurvey researchdesignandthesimplerandomsamplingtechniquewasused toselecta sample of 50 students for the study. The questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was analyzed using the percentage and thematically. The findingsrevealedthat72%oftherespondentssupportedthefactthat whenthe mother is divorced it brings about indiscipline, truancy, promiscuity and aggressiveness,62%oftherespondentssupportedthatmaternal deathbrought about promiscuity, truancy and waywardness in adolescents and 62% of the respondentssupportedthatmaternalillnessbrought aboutnegativeimpactson the psychosocial development of adolescents. The study recommended that childcare activists and practitioners work towards creating a society where adolescents are very involved and not just mere victims of circumstances beyond their control and to find good therapeutic interventions to assist adolescents who are have been deprived from maternal care.