PROVIDING SUPPORT TO YOUNG PEOPLE
By Hazel Reid and Alison J Fielding
Routledge
ISBN 9780415419604
£18.99
A valuable introduction to providing information, advice and guidance for those working with teenagers.
This is a very useful, practical guide for professionals offering young people guidance, support and advice.
The authors set the scene by placing the business of helping relationships in the context of the development of integrated youth support services. They then suggest ways that practitioners can develop the skills and strategies necessary to become effective face-to-face workers.
The book itself begins by pointing out that workers need to listen properly to what young people say, "hear their story", and avoid issuing hasty prescriptions about the best course of action. It might sound obvious, but the use of unskilled practitioners coupled with increasing pressures to meet outcomes and quotas can sometimes work against the best outcome for the young person.
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