Building Positive Relationships

            This essay is going to summarise the Key theories and models of development and interaction that will impact on the building of positive relationships .This is going to consider the criticisms of each theory Ainsworth,Bowlby and Lorenz and state how they impact upon building positive relationships. This assignment is going to justify how supportive and preventative services working with other professionals impact upon building positive relationships for young children and their families.This assignment is going to identify the role of the practitioner and parent and how this role impact on young children's development and building positive relationships. This essay is also going to explore how environmental issues,parent partnership and special educational and cultural needs impact the building of positive relationships. .
             Attachment is a mutual and intense emotional relationships between two individuals. Attachment is used to describe the relationship between a child and their child giver. "Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space" McLeod (2009;Online). Attachments are normally formed within the first six months of a child's life but shows up in a second six months through wariness of strangers and fear of separation from caregiver. Mary ainsworth (1970) identified three main attachment styles these are the following secure,anxious- ambivalent, anxious-avoidant. A secure attachment is the emotional bond between children and their caregivers.An child who has a anxious ambivalent attachment will be anxious of exploration and of strangers even when the caregiver is present. An ambivalent attachment can be a result of a caregiver who ignores or tends to the child's needs according to the caregivers own needs or interest rather than in response to the child's cues. A avoidant attachment can result from the caregiver being disengaged and emotionally detached from child.