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On the Road to Adulthood

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Thanks to medical advances, more and more children and adolescents with disabilities live into adulthood. This means that more and more are undergoing a transition from childhood to adulthood and thus a transition from child-oriented health-care providers to adult-oriented health-care providers. These transitions can for various reasons be difficult and problematic for many adolescents and their families. Parents of children with disabilities often experience anxiety and additional stress in terms of how life and the future will come to be for the adolescent. Although these transitions from childhood to adulthood are seen as difficult and even traumatic, the result of the transition is often good or at least acceptable. Adolescents with moderate or lighter disabilities seem to have the most difficulties in finding their way and often end up in social isolation and excluded from full involvement in the community.

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Hallberg, U., Klingberg, G. (2023). On the Road to Adulthood. In: Children with Special Needs . SpringerBriefs in Social Work. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28513-4_5

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