Prevention and School Transitions

Prevention and School Transitions
Author: Leonard Jason
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1993
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781560245766
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For the first time in one volume, the top researchers and theorists in the field of school transitions describe their most recent theoretical and practical work. This broad overview of theory and interventions for children and adolescents undergoing school transitions is an invaluable guide for scientists and practitioners looking for ways to help children cope with both routine and unexpected changes. Prevention and School Transitions helps professionals design prevention programs that ease transitions for children and adolescents transferring from middle school to high school, moving to schools in new towns, switching to schools with better academic programs, or transferring to alternative schools. Students who go through transitions face an increased risk for academic difficulties and emotional and social problems caused by changes in curriculum and new standards of acceptance by peer groups and teachers. Prevention and School Transitions provides parents, school personnel, mental health professionals, and educational and psychological researchers with new ways of thinking about preventive interventions for children confronted with the challenges of succeeding in new school settings. Some of the innovative programs and theories presented include: a prevention program that restructured a high school and resulted in reduced dropout rates, improved school performance, and better attendance a dropout prevention program that extended homeroom teachers'involvement beyond academics, reorganized the school environment to minimize class changes, and established a communication system between parents and teachers a study of the effects of transition to an alternative school on grade point averages, attendance rates, and matriculation a mentoring program that assists post partum mothers in transition back to high school a study of the risk factors and resources used during transition to life after high school These insightful chapters help psychologists, school counselors, concerned parents, and mental health workers better understand the complicated sets of relationships between different components of school systems and appreciate how schools create and use new resources. Readers will also see how school and family environments shape students'adaptation and assess the changing demands for children's adaptive capacities over time.

Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions

Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions
Author: Moshe Israelashvili
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2023-06-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3031267001
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This book provides a comprehensive and updated review of the concepts, models, and interventions related to the process of adjustment to life course transitions. In times of transition, an individual is exposed to experiences that require them to assume new roles and exhibit updated behaviors. Regardless of the characteristics of these transitions, exposure to normative trajectories imposes on the person an intensive engagement in a process of (re-)adjustment. Sometimes this demand is beyond the scope of one's ability, motivation, or comprehension. Hence, some people might ineffectively perceive and/or react to the change and end up feeling unable to handle the change and inclined to escape the situation. A preventive intervention that either reduces the impact of possible risk factors or fosters possible protective factors would support the people in managing the transition. While the importance of prevention of maladjustment is repeatedly mentioned in the literature, this is the first-known book on how to prevent maladjustment. It examines how the sense of transition emerges, what adjustment means, the models that elaborate on how people manage in times of transition, what the antecedents of maladjustment are, and especially how maladjustment could be prevented. Out of these discussions, a new model, The Transitional Stress and Adjustment (TSA) Model, is suggested as a grand framework for paving a way forward to better prevent people's maladjustment to life course transitions. Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions is a much-needed cornerstone in the future development within the prevention science framework. This book has interdisciplinary appeal for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in psychology, sociology, public health, social work, criminology, medicine, health sciences, public policy, economics, and education who consider prevention an important vehicle of intervention to promote health and wellbeing. Its focus on the topic of adjustment also would be of special interest to those who explore child and youth development.

Understanding School Transition

Understanding School Transition
Author: Jennifer Symonds
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317500849
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School transition is a life changing event for children - they are rarely faced with such a powerful set of personal and social changes. These underpin the immediate and longer term wellbeing of children, peer groups, teachers and schools. Understanding School Transition provides a most comprehensive, international review of this important area, complete with practical advice on what practitioners can do to support children’s wellbeing, motivation and achievement. Offering an accessible introduction to children’s psychology at transition, Understanding School Transition explores transition as a status passage, what we really mean by wellbeing, and the ways in which children adapt to new environments. Key chapters focus on: Understanding stress and anxiety Children’s hopes, fears and myths at transition Parents’ and teachers’ influence and role Children’s relationships with peers as they change schools Children’s personal and collective identities Motivation, engagement and achievement Supporting the most vulnerable children Crucially, it advises how you can help children through implementing transition interventions and evaluating their success in your own school. Illustrated by case studies of experiences in real schools, Understanding School Transition will be essential reading for all training and practising teachers, as well as transition and subject specialists, who want to better understand and influence what happens to children at this critical stage.

Prevention of Achievement Loss in the Middle School Transition

Prevention of Achievement Loss in the Middle School Transition
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2008
Genre: Academic achievement
ISBN:
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Decades of research have shown a normative decline in academic performance to be associated with the transition from elementary school to middle school. Based on the idea that these difficulties stem from a lack of relevant coping skills, the current study focused on the preventive effects of a three-year social and emotional learning (SEL) program in mitigating transitional achievement loss. Quality of implementation, a crucial, but often overlooked, factor in program evaluation, is the framework through which students' intervention experiences were defined. In each intervention year, implementation was assessed through teacher-reported curriculum fidelity and teacher's perception of program quality. These factors were tested as predictors of changes in GPA and standardized test scores across the transition. Intervention dosage received over the fifth grade year emerged as a significant predictor of GPA change. Dosage was unrelated to standardized test change, though differences between genders and ethnic groups in transitional standardized test performance were found. Teachers' ratings of program effectiveness were also unrelated to outcome, but were associated with intervention dosage.

Assisting Students in Their Transition from Primary School to Secondary School

Assisting Students in Their Transition from Primary School to Secondary School
Author: Angela Ramagnano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2005
Genre: Identity (Psychology) in adolescence
ISBN:
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Prevention work in the area of school transitions has been a growing area of interest in recent years. Studies focussing on the move from primary school to secondary school have found that students' responses to, and management of, this transition are mixed. Some research findings suggest that primary school students moving on to secondary school experience high levels of vulnerability. Prevention programs targeting students in transition have focussed mainly on enhancing social skills and self-esteem. Although there have been many programs that have been implemented in Australian schools, very few have been evaluated. The present study aimed to evaluate the Transition to Year 7 Program developed by the researcher for final year primary school students. The program attempted to gear participants with skills and knowledge that would assist them with their move from primary school to secondary school. A secondary aim of the study was to identify which factors were important in predicting successful transition: high self esteem, low anxiety, high social skills, positive expectations of the transition were hypothesized to do so. One hundred and sixty-five children participated in the study. Findings suggested that participants in the intervention group (n = 63) reported higher levels of self esteem and lower levels of anxiety post-intervention as compared with control group (n = 102) participants. Twelve month follow-up (ll months after entering Year 7) found these differences were maintained and intervention participants also reported feeling more settled in their new secondary schools. In the non-intervention group, greater difficulty with transition was predicted by lower social skills and more worrying at the end of Grade 6. Higher positive expectations of the transition predicted being settled at follow-up. The present study's findings lend further support to the importance of preventative work in schools.