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Transitioning Into Adulthood

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2016
The transition to adulthood is not easily marked by specific life events such as completing school, getting married, or having children. Variations in timing and the economic and social pressures associated with the traditional signs of adulthood make young people’s decisions about their futures complex and uncertain.
Barbara Schneider   +3 more
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Transition to adulthood

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2012
BackgroundOver recent years there has been increasing evidence of the diverse approaches to moving young people with life-limiting conditions from children's services to adult services. ACT, the UK Association for Children's Palliative Care led a project which ran for 3 years across the UK which aimed to support local services as they implemented the ...
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Transition to Adulthood

Emerging Adulthood, 2014
Relatively little is known about the pathways youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) take in the transition to adulthood in terms of employment and postsecondary education (PSE). Applying life course sequence analysis to a nationally representative sample of youth with ASDs ( N = 120), this study clustered various longitudinal sequences into three
Xin Wei   +4 more
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Transitions to Adulthood

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2013
This article explores the lessons of family change in the West for emerging patterns of change in East and Southeast Asia, especially for the transition to adulthood. This passage has become more protracted and less predictable in Western nations. There is also a great deal of variation in the patterning of the adult transition in different nations in ...
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Transition to Adulthood in Italy

2001
Over the last forty years Italy has undergone major economic and social changes which have allowed it to quickly overcome its position as a backward country as held at the end of the Second World War. Agriculture, originally the basis of the economic activities (in 1951, 42 per cent of all active men worked in this sector), has gradually been replaced,
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Transitioning to Adulthood

2018
In this chapter we argue that mechanical ways of ‘doing’ school are not working for large numbers of young people nor are they preparing them for the adult world (Pope, D. (2001). Doing school: How we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, and miseducated students. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press).
Barry Down, John Smyth, Janean Robinson
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Transitions to adulthood

Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 2012
The article argues that New Labour’s concern with productive moral citizenship underlies the model of ‘corporate parent’ which informs the Children (Leaving Care) Act, 2000. We show that there has been in statutory child care work a rather uncritical acceptance of ‘good parenting’ leading to ‘good outcomes’, based on the ‘Looking after Children’ (LAC ...
Chris Grover   +2 more
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Transition to Adulthood

Abstract This chapter presents the background, research, and clinical guidelines for rehabilitation psychologists working with emerging adults. During the unique developmental stage between the mid-teenage years and the late 20s, individuals with pediatric-onset disabilities and chronic conditions can experience significantly more ...
Gianna Locascio   +2 more
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Transitions to Adulthood

2018
This chapter addresses research on the transition to adulthood in relation to wider family relationships and examines how this transition is shaped historically both by the family support available and the wider economic and political contexts of the period when young people make their transition.
Ann Nilsen   +2 more
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Transition to Adulthood

2005
Abstract As medical care has improved, more children who have spina bifida are surviving to adulthood. Findings from one study indicate that at least 75 % of children born with meningomyelocele can be expected to reach their early adult years (Bowman et al., 2001).
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