changing places

changing places

Daily basis
1. School
2. day center
Occasional basis
1. Breaks
2. respite
short term basis
1. Hospital stay
2. time limited foster care
Longer-term basis
1. leave home
2. residential/nursing care
Most poeple experince daily changes
1. switching in and out of settings
2. presents difficulties for some
Alice
1. Autist
2. well rehearsed and practiced steps to get to school
3. from a member of small family - large class
4. familiarity people, places and routines
Simon
1. visual impairment
2. special school 5 - 18
3. traumatic seperation from mother
Cathy
1. emergency admission
2. Children taken to a friends house
3. resisted efforts to move her
4. physical remove her
staged process
1. information in advance
2. visit
3. talk to someone independent
4. Have a say
Good practice
1. inroductory meetings
  1. the childrens act 1989
  2. DH - important part of foster placement preparation
  3. benefit other groups as well
2. Prepaing the child for separation
  1. many not stayed away form home before
  2. cleaver study
adjusting to change
1. 7 stages of transition ( Hopson)
  1. numbness
    1. Denial
      1. Depression
        Acceptance
        Testing
        Search for meaning
        Internaliation
Lyn Smith
1. recent transitions more welcome
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Resource summary

	Created by Charlie_eeyore almost 11 years ago