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Transition One Stop : TRANSITION POINTS : Middle to High School : Health and Development

Health and Development

Recommended Visits to Doctor

• Well-child checkups and immunizations: 14 years, 16 years, 18 years
  
• Early identification of problems – slow growth, inappropriate weight for height, maltreatment, delays, vision, hearing, language, acute and chronic diseases, mental health issues
  
• Young person learns to talk with doctor, describe lifestyle and symptoms, follow through with treatment regimens.
  
• Learn to make own health care appointments, refill prescriptions
  
• Learn about equipment, how to maintain and fix (or instruct others)
  
• Learn about health insurance – what it covers and when coverage ends
  
• Plan for transition from pediatrician to adult-focused doctor
  
  
  
  
  SelfCare
  
  
• Health routines such as brushing teeth, hygiene
  
• Healthy diet and maintaining healthy weight
  
• Stay physically fit
  
• Adequate sleep
  
• Safety in sports, driving, home; has emergency plans
  
• Ability to determine if becoming sick and what to do
  
• Knows basic first aid and CPR
  
• Responsible sexual behavior
  
• Avoiding tobacco, alcohol, drugs
  
  
  
  
  Mental Health
  
  
• Prevention and early detection of behavioral problems
  
• Early detection and treatment of depression/ suicidal thoughts
  
• Early detection of other mental health issues
  
• Caution in use of internet – people may not be who they say they are.
  
  
  
  
  Health Issues
  
  
• From American Medical Association’s Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1980.html
  
• Promoting parents’ ability to respond to health needs of their adolescents
  
• Adjustment to puberty and adolescence
  
• Safety and injury prevention – learning CPR and first aid
  
• Physical fitness
  
• Healthy dietary habits and preventing eating disorders and obesity
  
• Healthy psychosexual adjustment and preventing negative health consequences of sexual behaviors
  
• Preventing hypertension (high blood pressure)
  
• Preventing hyperlipidemia (high blood fats – cholesterol and triglycerides)
  
• Preventing use of tobacco products
  
• Preventing use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs
  
• Preventing severe or recurrent depression or suicide
  
• Preventing physical, sexual, or emotional abuse
  
• Preventing learning problems
  
• Preventing infections diseases
  
• AMA recommends 3 health promotion visits to MD – early, middle and late adolescence (11-21)
  
  
  
  

Growth and Developments

• Social and conflict resolution skills
  
• Personal value system
  
• Capacity for intimacy
  
• Good peer relationships with boys and girls
  
• Coping skills and strategies
  
• Developing autonomy
  
• Can describe what is good at
  
• Developing sense of community responsibility
  
• Success in school
  
• Preparation for work
  
• Learn to manage money
  
  
  
  
  Mental and Social Development
  
  
• Body image – learning to use body competently and treat body well
  
• Developing sexuality – teaching about menstruation, sexual development, values, reproduction
  
• Emotional concerns and mental health – separation, depression, self confidence, anger management, worried, stress, threatened; pride in accomplishments; ability to have fun with friends; discuss what good at; someone to talk with when concerned; developing resilience – ability to overcome mistakes, frustration and failure and try again
  
• Limiting screen time - TV watching, computers, video games
  
• Social competence – getting along with others, having friends; things proud of in self or relationships; belonging to groups; ability to be alone; handling conflict; bullying or being bullied; shyness; peer pressures
  
• Prevention, early identification and treatment of behavioral problems: hyperactivity, inability to concentrate, temper, aggression, lying, cruelty, violence
  
• Success in school – attendance, reading and math at grade level; doing homework; acknowledgement of and pride in achievements; developing interests in careers; parental involvement; teacher reports; identification and treatment of learning disabilities, lack of motivation
  
• Developing independence – learning to cook, wash, care for house and clothes
  
• Involvement in community – neighborhood service, faith community, others
  
• Feeling loved and valued
  
• Ability to communicate with peers and adults, teachers, health care professionals; have adult role models; ability to discuss concerns; show respect to others of all ages
  
  
  
  
  Links
  
  
• American Academy of Family Physicians
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics
  
• Boston's Children's Hospital
  
• Bright Futures
  
• Bright Futures for Families
  
• Bullying
  
• Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs
  
• Center for Disease Control
  
  • National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Healthy Schools Healthy Youth Website
    
• CDC Healthy Youth Mental Health site
  
• CDC Kids Website
  
• DisabilityInfo.gov
  
• Dropout Prevention
  
• Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration
  
• Department for Community Based Services
  
• Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation
  
• Family Voices
  
• Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
  
• Girl's Health
  
• Healthy Ready to Work National Center
  
• Kid's Health
  
• Kids as Self Advocates (KASA)
  
• Kids.gov
  
• Kentucky Child Now
  
• Kentucky Department of Public Health
  
• Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
  
• Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
  
• Kentucky Commission on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Emergency Preparedness
  
• National Center on Physical Activity and Disability
  
• National Mental Health Information Center
  
• National Youth Leadership Network
  
• National Center for Secondary Education and Transition
  
• National Child Care Information Center
  
• National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth
  
• National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
  
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
  
• Parents' Action for Children
  
• Primary Health Care Sources in Kentucky
  
• Safe Kids Worldwide
  
• Safe Kids Kentucky
  
• Parent Brief, "What does Health Have to Do with Transition?"
  
• The Research Network on the Transitions to Adulthood
  
• Teen Sexual Health
  
• Teen Health
  
• United Partners in Kentucky (Up-in-KY)
  
• University of Washington Adolescent Health Transition Project
  
• US Department of Health and Human Services
  
• I WANNA KNOW of the American Social Health Association (ASHA)
  
• Kentucky Transition Signal at the IHDI at the University of Kentucky