1st Edition
Youth Workers, Stuckness, and the Myth of Supercompetence Not knowing what to do
1. My Stomach Fell Through the Floor: The Moment of Not-Knowing What to Do 2. Contextualizing Not-Knowing: Terminology and the Role of Professional Identity 3. Investigating Not-Knowing: Research Methodology 4. Whose Stories are These? 5. Like a Deer in the Headlights: The Paralysis of Stuckness 6. Helpless, Hopeless, and Out of Control: Features of Despair 7. Center Stage: Humiliation, Being Found Out, and the Myth of Supercompetence 8. It’s Just a Little Too Human: Questions of Vocation 9. Not-Knowing Gives Way to Knowing 10. So What? Now What? Implications for Youth Work Practice 11. Appendix A: Interview Guide
Biography
Ben Anderson-Nathe is Assistant Professor in Child and Family Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he also coordinates undergraduate practicum experiences for students entering the fields of youth work, social work, and education. His areas of research and teaching are youth development, youth worker training and development, human sexuality, anti-oppression organizing and education, and the bridges between theory and practice in public policy, health, and social services.
