
A-Z of Transitions
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Concise and accessible, this book is a one-stop source book for students and professionals working in the caring professions who need to know more about transitions across the life course. Written by a leading scholar in the field, it is the latest book in Palgrave's popular Professional Keywords series.
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'Because of its A to Z format, this book will be very appealing to students, scholars and practitioners in multiple disciplines, as well as policy makers interested in designing better policies related to transitional phases across the life span.' - Professor Jacquelynne Eccles, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California Irvine, USAMore details
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A ABCs (Affect, Behaviour and Cognition) of acculturation .- Additional Support Needs (ASN) .- Ageing .- Agency .- Attachment .- Adaptation (see ABCs of acculturation in the context of pedagogical and cultural adaptation) .- Autonomy (see Self-determination Theory).- B Belonging (see Group Identification) .- Bereavement .- Border Crossing .- Big Fish Little Pond Effect (BFLPE).- C Case studies .- Collaboration .- Communication (see Collaboration, Parental Participation, Transition Partnerships, Voice) .- Conceptualisation (see Transition, Educational Transition, Life Transition, Border crossing, Rite of Passage, Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions, Educational and Life Transitions) .- Continuity .- Coping skills (see Resilience) .- Creative approaches .- Cultural adaptation (see ABCs (Affective, Behaviour and Cognitive) of acculturation) .- Culture shock (see ABCs (Affective, Behaviour and Cognitive) of acculturation).- D Diagnosis (see Health transitions) .- Dip in Attainment.- E Ecological Systems Theory .- Educational Transitions .- Educational and Life Transitions (ELT) model.- Emotional intelligence .- Employment transitions .- Expectancy-Value-Cost Theory .- Expectations and Reality- F Familiarisation .- Friendships.- G Games based approaches .- Group identification .- Groupwork- H Health Transitions .- Holistic approach (see MMT; ELT) .- Horror stories (see Expectations and Gaps) .- Home-Nursery/Day Care Transitions .- Hospitalisation (see Health transitions).- I Identity .- Induction .- Information packs (see Familiarisation) .- Information sharing (see Collaboration) .- Interactionist approach (see Readiness) .- International students' transitions to higher education .- Interrupted education (see Hospitalisation).- J Job coach (see Employment)- K Key worker (see Special Educational Need, Transition meetings).- L Language used .- Life Transitions .- Life Course Theory.- Longitudinal studies.- M Migration (International transitions) of children .- Maturational approach (see Readiness) .- Motivation (see Dip in attainment, Expectancy-Value-Cost Theory, Self-determination) .- Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions (MMT) Theory- N Nicholson's Theory of Work Role Transitions .- Nursery Primary School Transitions.- O Offending and reintegration .- Ongoing process .- One-off event (see Ongoing process) .- Opportunities for secure attachment (see Attachment)- P Parental Involvement/Parental Participation .- Pedagogical adaptation (see ABCs (Affective, Behaviour and Cognitive) of acculturation) .- Person-centred Planning .- Portfolios (see Virtual backpack) .- Post-school Transitions .- Primary to Secondary School Transitions.- R Readiness .- Relationships .- Retirement (see Employment) .- Resilience .- Risk .- Rites of Passage.- S Self-determination Theory .- Self-esteem .- Social Network Analysis .- Special educational needs .- Stage-Environment Fit theory .- Strategies (See Voice, Induction, Familiarisation, Parental Participation) .- Successful transitions .- Supported employment (see Employment).- T Transfer .- Transition .- Transition meetings (see Special Educational Needs) .- Transition partnership (see Collaboration) .- Transition plans (see Employment, Special Education Needs, Transition Planning and Preparation) .- Transition Planning and Preparation- V Virtual Backpack Approach .- Voice- W Wellbeing.- Bibliography.