Early attachment and later relationships

• Internal working model helps explain adult relationships
• Research suggest two long-term effects of privation
• Cycle of privation:

  Quinton et al: Compared 50 women experienced institutional care and 50 women who hadn't

  Women raised in institutions most likely to have parenting difficulties

  This is the cycle of privation
• Reactive attachment disorder - Parker and Forest

  Rare but serious condition which occurs in children who have been permanently damaged by early experiences such as privation
• Symptoms of reactive attachment disorder

  1. Inability to give or receive information
  2. Dishonesty
  3. poor social relationships
  4. Criminal activity