Positive Adjustment to First Grade Despite Divorce: Lessons for School Psychologists

Autor/inn/en	Bezuidenhout, Carla; Theron, Linda; Fritz, Elzette
Titel	Positive Adjustment to First Grade Despite Divorce: Lessons for School Psychologists
Quelle	In: School Psychology International, 39 (2018) 5, S.490-509 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-0343
DOI	10.1177/0143034318791332
Schlagwörter	Divorce; Emotional Adjustment; Resilience (Psychology); Case Studies; Coping; Grade 1; Student Adjustment; Elementary School Students; School Psychologists; Student Attitudes; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ehescheidung; Emotionale Anpassung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Bewältigung; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; School psychologist; Psychologists; School; Schools; Schulpsychologe; Schulpsychologin; Psychologe; Psychologin; Psychologen; Schule; Schülerverhalten; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Positive adjustment to first grade is an important milestone in children's lives. Yet, it is sometimes further complicated by additional challenges such as parental divorce. Drawing on a social ecological perspective we explored how the systems rooted in social ecologies enable children's resilience when their parents are divorced so as to result in their coping well with adjusting to first grade. We used a single instrumental case study that involved visual methodologies to uncover lessons from the story of a first grader whose parents divorced but who continued to adjust well to first grade. Our findings suggest leverage points for school psychologists (SPs) who wish to champion the resilience of first graders who are adjusting to formal school as well as their parents' divorce. SPs can intervene by supporting the first grader's processes of agency and meaning making; by working systemically to engage systems of support; and by mobilizing systems with task-sharing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01