2nd Edition

Ethical Issues in Youth Work

Edited By Sarah Banks Copyright 2010
230 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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 and an overview of the policy and organisational context of youth work. The second part is grounded... Read more

Part I:The ethical context of youth work,  1. Ethics and the youth worker, Sarah Banks,  2. Working in welfare: youth policy’s contradictions and dilemmas, Phil Mizen,  3. Ethics, collaboration and the organisational context of youth work, Kenneth McCulloch and Lyn Tett,  4. Resourcing youth work: dirty hands and tainted money, Tony Jeffs and Mark K Smith, Part II: Ethical issues in practice,  5. Youth workers as professionals: managing dual relationships and maintaining boundaries, Howard Sercombe,  6. Youth workers as moral philosophers: developing right thinking and mindfulness, Kerry Young,  7. Youth workers as controllers: issues of method and purpose, Tony Jeffs,  8. Youth workers as converters: ethical issues in faith-based youth work, Maxine Green,  9. Youth workers as critical interpreters and mediators: ethical issues in working with black young people, Umme F. Imam and Rick Bowler,  10. Youth workers as confidants: issues of welfare and trust, Sue Morgan and Sarah Banks,  11. Youth workers as researchers: ethical issues in practitioner and participatory research, Janet Batsleer,  12. Young people as activists: ethical issues in promoting and supporting active citizenship, Jason Wood

Biography

Sarah Banks is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK.

"This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of the core ethical dilemmas facing youth workers in their everyday practice." - Hilary Orpin, Greenwich University

"Still hugely relevant and now more current, this new edition will support all those working in youth services to deliberate the application of youth work ethics with an awareness of the diversity of practice in this specific field." - Tyrrell Golding, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK