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Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice
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Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice

Second Edition


January 2013 | 280 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This popular textbook gives students a practical understanding of the broad range of skills they will need during the course of their studies and throughout their youth work career.

Topics covered include:

- Reaching out to young people

- Developing young people's participation

- Working in different settings

- Bringing young people together

- Practice placements

The new edition will be essential reading for all foundation and undergraduate students of youth work. It will also be a valuable resource for qualified health, social care and education professionals who wish to understand the intricacies of working with young people.

 
PART ONE: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
 
Understanding Youth Work
 
Locating Youth Work in Different Settings
 
Reaching Out
 
Establishing Voluntary Relationships
 
PART TWO: WORKING TOGETHER
 
Bringing Young People Together
 
Having Fun
 
Working on Issues
 
Sustaining Growth in Groups
 
Enhancing Young People's Participation
 
PART THREE: SUSTAINING DEVELOPMENT
 
Developing a Project Proposal
 
Managing a Project
 
Organising Student Placements
 
Using Supervision

An excellent resource for practitioners which clearly links theory and practice.

Mrs Alana Enoch
Education Studies and Social Inclusion, Trinity College Carmarthen
April 2, 2013

An excellent resourece for practitioners which clearly links practivce and theory.

Mrs Alana Enoch
Education Studies and Social Inclusion, Trinity College Carmarthen
April 2, 2013

Recommended for Module one of our course

Ms Louise Cadwell
Drugs Initiatives, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
March 19, 2013

Level 4 students really useful introduction to key practice dilemmas and considerations.

Ms Jodie Low
Applied Social and Community Studies, Derby University
March 13, 2013

Essential Skills for Youth Work Practice is a key text for students to prepare them for placement within a youth work setting.

Jessica Bishop
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Coventry University
February 1, 2013

This is an essentail text for our course, well written by a trusted and respected tutor

Mr Baljeet Gill
Youth and Community, Ruskin College Oxford
January 28, 2013

The new edition is excellent. It is both accessible and insightful, and the new chapters on placement practice are particularly welcome. A must for any youth work student.

Mr Graham Bright
Faculty of Education & Theology, York St John University College
January 25, 2013
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