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Developing Practice or Management Struggle?. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 232
Youth work is ill-defined and practitioners come
from a range of disciplines, thus a range of
practices are claimed as youth work. This book
discusses the workplace experiences of thirteen
youth work practitioners as it relates to their work
with young people living with violence. Research
estimates that as many as 16% of Western Australian
young people currently experience violence at home
and young women in particular are most vulnerable to
violence in intimate relationships. Practitioners
acknowledge that many of the young people using
their services may be included in this figure but
often believe they cannot provide the support
required. The book identifies an ideological
tension between what youth workers are employed to
do and what youth workers believe their role to be
and argues for greater recognition of youth work
practice and for the professionalisation of youth
work. It claims that youth work is more than just
the provision of recreation for young people and
that professional youth work practice requires an
extensive range of specialist skills.
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