Lead the management of transitions
In this tutorial you will learn:
- About different transitions that individuals face as they grow up
- How to help ease individuals through stages of transition, and reduce anxiety and other negative emotions
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Transitions: A quick guide to supporting the needs of pupils and their families when moving between educational settings’ from Nasen
- ‘Supporting children and young people through transition’ from the National Children’s Bureau
- ‘Transitions in the lives of children and young people: Resilience factors’ from the Barnardo’s charity
- ‘Children, young people and grief’ from Cruse Bereavement Care
- Laser Learning reading text ‘Transitions’
- Laser reading text ‘Preparing a child for a planned transition’
- ‘Section 10: Transitions for disabled children and children with SEN’ by the Council for Disabled Children
- ‘Understanding and improving transitions of older people; a user and carer centred approach’ from the NHS National Institute for Health Research
- ‘Transition from children’s to adults’ services for young people using health or social care services’ by NICE
- ‘The Care Act: Transition from childhood to adulthood’ on the Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation ‘Oh no, puberty!’
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Supporting transitions’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Impacts on transitions.
- Click to launch this lesson’s fourth presentation on ‘Why attachment matters: Supporting resilience through attachment’ by Early Education.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Improving transitions to secondary school for looked after children’ from the Centre for Excellence for looked after children in Scotland.
- ‘Preparing pupils for puberty’ from the Sec Ed website. Puberty often starts around the time of the transition to senior school.
- ‘Transitions' on the Birth to 5 Matters website. This first article looks at transitions in the early years and into school.
- ‘Anxiety in children’ from NHS Choices. Click to read more about children made anxious by transitions.
- ‘Partnership for well-being and mental health in schools’ from the National Children’s Bureau. This tool is advice for schools in promoting social and emotional well-being and responding to mental health problems in schools.
- ‘Bereavement’ from the Hands on Scotland website. The article looks at how children and young people respond to the death of somebody close to them, and also how to respond to them.
- ‘Moving house and how children can be affected’ written by Kate Hilpern. This article looks at the impact that moving house can have on children and young people.
- ‘Transition and Key Person matters' on the Early Years Matters website. Click to read this article.
- This section of the Council for Disabled Children contains a number of 'Transition Guides' that you may find useful
- This article from the Social Care Institue for Excellence looks at 'What are well-managed transitions of care, and why are they important?'
- Click to launch this presentation ‘Describe the potential effects of transitions and significant events on a child’s life’.
- Click on the icon to the left to read 'Navigating later life transitions: An evaluation of emotional and psychological interventions' from the Centre for Aging Better.
- Use the internet to research how bereavement impacts the children or adults you work with and to find resources you could use.
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
- Think And Challenge
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