31-5.1 How different types of transitions can affect children and young people’s development A transition is a change of passage from one stage or state to another .Children and young people naturally pass through a number of stages as they grow and develop. Often, they will also be expected to cope with changes such as movement from nursery education to primary school , and from primary to secondary school. These changes are commonly referred to as transitions. Transitions can affect all areas of the development of children and young people: -emotional -personal experiences, such as parents separating , bereavement, entering or leaving care -physical: moving to a new educational setting , a new home or care setting -intellectual -moving
Describe, with examples, how transitions may affect children and young people’s behaviour and development • A 13 year old whose parents are divorcing May show aggression and anger, often acting in a rebellious manner, and could take their anger out on their parents. They may not respond to discipline. They could feel guilty, believing they are be the cause of the separation. They may become more independent, not wanting to be part of the new way of life. They might have difficulty sleeping, which will have a detrimental effect on their learning.
The potential effects of transitions on children and young people's development How transitions can affect children and young people's development Children and young people must deal with change in their life. As they develop and grow their bodies change, friendships and relationships change and they experience many new and different situations involving transitions including physical transitions e.g. moving to new house, emotional transitions e.g. gaining or loosing a family member or changing carers, physiological transitions e.g. puberty and intellectual transitions e.g.
It may also be because the child has committed an offence. Some possible causes in behaviour which might lead to problems for children, young people and their families may include stress, anxiety and depression. Many children suffer from stress, leading to poor school performance and emotional and behavioural problems. Stress may be the result of an unstable home life or feeling of being unloved. Their parents may not have the skills for bringing up children, or the child feels the demands for achievement and success are unrealistic.
It can affect the child in many ways as they can become nervous and anxious resulting in them becoming withdrawn and have a lack of confidence at the thought of a new school, they may be leaving close friendship groups making them upset and feeling alone. Most children will experience a new baby in the family. Younger children may find this difficult as they will still be used to having all of the attention and not understand why the family set up has changed, this could lead them to reverting back to baby ways themselves, have tantrums, be unkind to the new baby or become clingy. An older child may feel left out and become withdrawn and feel in the way, which could result in them not feeling a part of the new family. They may endure sleepless nights and loose sleep making them tired and unable to concentrate when at school.
And some young people and children may be abused or exploited so, they need to look after away from their families. The reasons are as follows: 1) Bereavement: most look after children will have experienced so many disruptions in their lives. This may include painful experiences such as family bereavement. As a result the children’s education may become affected and they may be below their expected class average. This will have caused from poor concentration, the child may also need specific help in their work and class before any sort of progress can be made.
The reasons as to why children may need to be looked after are varied. Their parents might be severely unwell or unable to cope with the child, the child may return back to their family home at sometime in the future if this situation were to change. Meanwhile they may spend time with foster parents or in children’s homes. The length of the time they spend in this situation will vary according to the circumstances. Family breakdown happens for a wider range of reasons; this can include bereavement, parental illness, incapacity, mental health problems or even substance abuse.
This could be a struggle because some parents live their dreams through their children and that pressures them to do more than they are capable of doing. More stress is being added to that because they want to have friends and make their parents happy and it can be hard for them to make time for studying and hanging out with friends. Most times these teens have a fear of failure and are under a lot of stress. If they feel like they have failed at something that their parents would be disappointed about they could feel like they aren’t good enough or just have unhealthy thoughts about themselves and they could end up being depressed or will do unhealthy things. Peer pressure is another challenge teenagers face.
Academic Stress – Some teenagers are under a big amount of pressure to succeed academically, especially when the rest of their family is successful too. Social Anxiety or Peer Pressure – When you grow up, you learn about the social world and the society. Popularity is really important for most of us, and for some who are not popular enough it can be very unsatisfying. The peer pressure nowadays to do things such as drugs, drink or other behavior may be traumatic for some teenagers who are not comfortable to do such things, but do them anyways because they are afraid they will not fit in and look bad in front of their friends. Romantic Problems – For some people, relationships and romantic entanglements may cause trauma in their life.
In addition social intimidation can lead to fear among children. They fear seeing the bully and getting picked on, or in a more serious case physically abused. Some children are even intimidated into secrecy. They may also keep quite because they feel embarrassed that they allowed this to happen to them. They may fear that their parents will either criticize them or that their parents will intervene and just make the situation worse.