changing places

changing places

1. Daily basis

   • School
   • day center

2. Occasional basis

   • Breaks
   • respite

3. short term basis

   • Hospital stay
   • time limited foster care

4. Longer-term basis

   • leave home
   • residential/nursing care

5. Most poeple experince daily changes

   • switching in and out of settings
   • presents difficulties for some

6. Alice

   • Autist
   • well rehearsed and practiced steps to get to school
   • from a member of small family - large class
   • familiarity people, places and routines

7. Simon

   • visual impairment
   • special school 5 - 18
   • traumatic seperation from mother

8. Cathy

   • emergency admission
   • Children taken to a friends house
   • resisted efforts to move her
   • physical remove her

9. staged process

   • information in advance
   • visit
   • talk to someone independent
   • Have a say

10. Good practice

    • inroductory meetings
      • the childrens act 1989
      • DH - important part of foster placement preparation
      • benefit other groups as well
    • Prepaing the child for separation
      • many not stayed away form home before
      • cleaver study

11. adjusting to change

    • 7 stages of transition ( Hopson)
      • numbness
        • Denial
          • Depression
            • Acceptance
              • Testing
                • Search for meaning
                  • Internaliation

12. Lyn Smith

    • recent transitions more welcome
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