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Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development Transition is something that everyone has to go through throughout their life. It is a process in which something undergoes a change and passes from one stage to another. Children experience this a lot, including family changes, school changes or body changes and this can affect their development if not dealt with in an appropriate and quick way. Different types of transitions | Examples | Family Structure | Parents splitting up, step siblings, step-parents, family living with them | Moving House | Changing house, changing of area eg: country, city | Illness or Bereavement | Loss or illness of family member or friend | New/additional primary carer | Starting nursery, being with a childminder, moving into foster care | Moving settings | Changes from pre-school to school, infants to juniors, leaving care | Admission into institution | Going into hospital, youth offenders, boarding school | Changes to body | Accidents, illness, puberty, chronic illness | All these types of transitions can extremely affect a child and cause issues with their development. There are many different ways children will react to these. Regression: their behaviour will return to an earlier, less developed way of behaving eg: like a baby Aggression: this causes anger and threatening behaviour and actions possibly towards other people and objects Withdrawn: this is where they will avoid social situations and be quiet/shy to a worrying degree Clinginess: children will become dependant and unwilling to leave the sight of a familiar adult or primary carer Illness: genuine or psychosomatic – stomach ache, cold and flu, cold sores are common ones Extraverted behaviours: Seeking ways of gaining attention all the time, outgoing, happy Sleeplessness: crying before bedtime, lack of sleeping, waking in the night, nightmares Lack of concentration: difficulty in focusing on things for long period of time, lack of motivation Depression: Upset, sad as well as other signs eg: not eating, withdrawn Food Disorders: not eating, or being picky and may become anorexic or over-eat Behaviour – shouting, swearing, angry, anti-social or become disobedient Self-harm – drink and drug misuse, cutting them, careless behaviour Behavioural – acting like a baby, becoming aggressive or destructive, or may become distressed and become shy. Emotional – may become shy, withdrawn and experience feelings of anxiety or also may be happy and excited. Physical – Whether genuine or psychosomatic, illness may be an issue with colds and flu’s, cold sores, or stomach pains Development – Wetting the bed, clinginess upon primary carer or familiar adult