Transitions in care

Transitions in care

1. occurs when person leaves home and moves into a care enviro

   • can be both long and short term
     • moving into a specialist setting (residential/nursing care homes)
       • Live on the margins of society
         • can cause a sense of community or a sense of seperation from society; being different
       • can be through
         • own choice making it a positive choice
         • circumstance
           • learning diffs who have been cared for at home them need to move following a death
             • PAM BARETTE
     • respite care, day centres, foster care
       • FOSTER CARE
         • JORDAN
           • ATTACHMENT THEORY: JOHN BOWLBY
         • Good transition practice
           • HEDY CLEAVER STUDY
             • Fostering Family contact (2000)
               • emphasised imp of Intro meetings advised in Children's Act 1989

2. 7 stages of transition (DAD NITS)

   • DENIAL, ACCEPTANCE, DEPRESSION, NUMBNESS, INTERNALISATION, TESTING SEARCH FOR MEANING
     • HOPSON ET AL 1992