Youth Work Books

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1. Research Methods for Youth Work: An introduction

   Edited by Simon Bradford, Fin Cullen

   Rigorous research is crucial to effective work with young people and increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57103-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Social Justice in Group Work: Practical Interventions for Change

   Edited by Anneliese Singh, Carmen Salazar

   This book spotlights the unique contribution of the Journal for Specialists in Group Work to the social justice literature, and of group work to a social justice agenda. Although the term social justice may be relatively new in the counseling and psychology literature, the underlying values -...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57681-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Evidence-based Parenting

   By Kirsten Asmussen

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60993-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Ethical Issues in Youth Work, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Sarah Banks

   This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of a range of ethical challenges facing youth workers in their everyday practice. The first part offers a clear outline of the nature of professional ethics, relevant ethical theories...

   May 2010 | 978-0-415-49971-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Youth Workers, Stuckness, and the Myth of Supercompetence: Not knowing what to do

   By Ben Anderson-Nathe

   Youth workers and other helping professionals regularly find themselves in situations where, despite their experience and education, they simply do not know what to do or how to respond to the circumstances facing them. This book takes up the moment of not-knowing as experienced by youth workers,...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-99773-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies

   Edited by Derek Kassem, Lisa Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor

   Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies presents an informed and critical commentary on a range of key issues related to children and childhood, from birth to eighteen years. Challenging current orthodoxies within the adult world on the nature of childhood, it is an essential text for students of...

   November 2009 | 978-0-415-46889-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of "At Risk" Students: Writing Spaces in Hard Times

   By Richard J. Meyer

   This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-87124-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Human Growth and Development: An Introduction for Social Workers

   By John Sudbery

   Social workers work with people at all stages of life, tackling a multitude of personal, social, health, welfare, legal and educational issues. As a result, all social work students need to understand human growth and development throughout the lifespan. This introductory text provides a...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-43995-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Young People and Sexual Exploitation: 'It's Not Hidden, You Just Aren't Looking'

   By Jenny J. Pearce

   Work with sexually exploited young people can be rewarding yet difficult. They can be hard to access, often presenting challenging behaviour. Sometimes it is painful to hear their life stories, whether these include abuse through the Internet or exploitation experienced through having been...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-40716-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation: Perspectives from Theory and Practice

    Edited by Barry Percy-Smith, Nigel Thomas

    A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation brings together key thinkers and practitioners from diverse contexts across the globe to provide an authoritative overview of contemporary theory and practice around children’s participation. Promoting the participation of children and young...

    August 2009 | 978-0-415-46852-7 | Paperback (Routledge)