Good Youth Work: What Youth Workers Do, Why and How

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This book describes and explains good youth work, drawing on the reflective practice of those who do it.

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Bryan Merton

This book describes and explains good youth work, drawing on the reflective practice of those who do it. It is aimed at practitioners and managers of youth work, wherever it is located, and at policy-makers and commissioners who may want to know more about the work they support.

By examining what good youth workers do we hope to make youth work practice explicit, visible and comprehensive; and thereby reveal its complexities, nuances and the different kinds of knowledge, skill, resource and insight that youth workers draw on in their everyday work. In doing so, author Bryan Merton draws on his many years of experience to illuminate what tends to be obscured by the phrase ‘the youth work approach’ and show how youth workers operate with sometimes very challenging young people in often difficult circumstances.