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Influence-early attachment-later relations

• Internal working model:
• First attachment is a template for future relationships. The quality of a child's first attachment is crucial because it provides a template that will affect the nature of their future relationships. This is due to the influence of the internal working model created by that first attachment.

Experience of attachment

• Good experience of attachment= good relationship expectations
• A child whose first experience is of a loving relationship with a reliable caregiver assumes this is how all relationships are meant to be. They will then seek out functional relationships and behave functionally within them
• Bad experience of attachment= bad relationship expectations