Research Article

Managing Transition with Support: Experiences of Transition from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to General Adult Psychiatry Narrated by Young Adults and Relatives

Table 1

Overview of the analysis process.

CategorySubcategoryInterview text

Being of age but
not mature
Still in need of supportI wanted company (relative) the first times we met because I didn’t know the person, I didn’t know what I should sit there and say (young adult)
She is 19 but in many ways she’s 13-14 years old and she is most probably not alone (relative)
Being close yet letting goIt may be the hardest thing, you have been very close the whole life, but I have yet decided that I have to trust them…even if it feels like I’m not that important any more (relative)
She should be involved as much as possible I think, but later on I can go there by myself…I want to decide if she should follow me to the meeting or not (young adult)

Walking out of security
and into uncertainty
Achieving closure and starting againI have vent to her for two three years and just started to work and so you have to start again with a new one and get to know and it will take some time…now I have start all over again from the beginning (young adult)
It is important that the kids don’t feel like they are thrown away…maybe you can meet two or three times depending on the situation (relatives)
Leaving secure relations behindI don’t know, maybe because I met her so often and she helped me start talking…yeah we connected simply…some persons you like and some you don’t and you must meet them to know if you will connect (young adult)
I think we hit it off pretty well…she got to know me pretty well better than I knew myself (young adult)

Feeling omitted and handling concernsLeft to their fateI don’t like it, it sucks but I have no choice I just have to accept it (young adult)
I must expect that they know what they do, that they have knowledge about different disabilities but I’m not sure (relative)
Insecurity that needs to be relievedThe transfer shall take place in another way so it doesn’t become an end and a gap (relative)
Lack of knowledge about who when or anything, missing the security that disappeared, it has been really tough (relative)