How To Anticipated Transition

Susan is a thirty year old junior majoring in social work. She married her high school sweetheart right after high school in order to accompany him while he was in the army overseas. After a few years in Germany she and her husband returned home and started a family. A lot of things were happening in her life with being a wife and new mom, but she decided to go back to school even when her husband was deployed to Iraq. She decided to quit after two years due to her he husband being killed in battle. A few years later after her daughter started kindergarten she decided to return to school to finish her degree, however she learned that she would have to apply for the Social Work program in order to take the classes needed for her to graduate …show more content…
Schlossberg’s Transition Theory outlines the transition that effect one’s life and their effects on student success and development. There are three types of transitions. Anticipated transitions are those that are expected. Susan’s move to Germany was an anticipated transition. She married her husband early in life so that she could move with him overseas, so the transition was planned. There are unanticipated transitions that are unexpected and unplanned. The deployment and eventual death of Susan’s husband was unexpected and it changed the dynamic of her life and her daughter’s life. A nonevent is a transition that was planned but did not happen. Susan expected to return to school on track to graduate, but learning that she had to apply to her program was an unexpected disappointment that caused a setback in her plan. With all of the transitions Sudan has had in her life it is how she handled each transition that affects her …show more content…
Some transition are positive and lead to student development, while others are negative and jeopardize student success. There are four factors which are considered The 4 S’s that influence the way a person handles life’s transitions. The first “S” is situation which is when a person determines if it was good or bad, permanent or temporary, whether they can control it and other important details of the transition. The second “S” is self in this factor one finds internal resources and determine their personal views and obligations to the situation. Support is the third “S” which is when individuals find external resources that can help them cope with the transition. The final factor is Strategies, this is where a person figures out how to respond to the transition. Susan has gone through many transitions throughout her life such as getting married at a young age, moving to a different country, having a baby, and becoming a widow. Her most recent transition is the nonevent of not being able to apply to the social work program. Susan needs support from someone to help her move through her transitions. An advisor could be beneficial to Susan. By providing her with options such as taking classes for a minor certification while she wait for the upcoming semester. This was she will have something tangible to show for her additional course work. Since seems to still be dealing with her husband’s death a referral to