#CSAM18 Day 29: The Four S’s of Transition

There are Four S's of transition: Situation, the 5 W's of the transition. Self, personal/demographic characteristics and psychological resources of the person going through the transition. Social support, which is pretty self explanatory. Strategies, how a person responds to the transition. There are also three parts of a transition: moving in, moving through, and moving out.

Title of theory: Transition Theory

Year theory was published: 1981

Students originally studied: Dr. Schlossberg has done a lot of research on adults, adults through transitioning, and counseling

Background of the author: Dr. Nancy Schlossberg is a Professor Emerita, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, College of Education at the University of Maryland. She's a recognized expert on adult transitions among other topics. She has many articles that focus on adult transitions, including focusing on retirement.

How theory can be used now: We can use this as one way to understand how we, along with our students, experience transition and change in our lives. We get to decide what is a transition, just like our students get to decide what their own transitions are.

Words of warning: There are other theories! Dr. Meleis https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/live/files/552-transitions-theory and a whole paper on transition theory https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/resources/student_transition_in_higher_education.pdf, there's transition theory from the social work world, such as Pierre Bourdieu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu) who actually looked at things like social capital and power dynamics and how those resources play into coping with change. There are theories that look at culture shock, which is a type of transition such as https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03075070701794833 and https://medium.com/global-perspectives/the-4-stages-of-culture-shock-a79957726164.

Mainly: Schlossberg is great, but there are SO MANY OTHERS. Use those other people once in a while.

http://www.unthsc.edu/students/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/Schlossberg.pdf
https://www.transitionsthroughlife.com/bio/full-biography/
http://www.victoriaestrella.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/web-site-4.2-schlossberg-transition-theory.pdf

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