Supporting Emotional Wellbeing During Primary-Secondary School Transitions

Primary-Secondary School Transitions mark a pivotal developmental milestone in children's, and their supporters’ lives. This accessible guide distils international research and practical insights into a reader-friendly resource focused on how parents, carers and teachers can support children’s emotional wellbeing.

“By bringing together a range of understandings about transitions, focusing on the timing in life of the primary-secondary transitions and giving real-life examples, this book embraces parents and children, meeting an important gap in the transitions literature in dynamic ways.”

Aline-Wendy Dunlop , Emeritus Professor, University of Strathclyde, UK

“This book provides many important recommendations for action and adjustments from a systemic perspective for parents and other important caregivers of the children, presented in an easy-to-understand and theoretically sound manner.”

Daniel Mays , Professor of Pedagogy, Institute for Special Education, University of Education Freiburg, Germany

Charlotte Louise Bagnall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester within Manchester’s Institute of Education.

Divya Jindal‑Snape is Professor and Personal Chair of Education, Inclusion and Life Transitions in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee.