Ethical Issues in Youth Work

ISBN-13: 9780415499705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str.

Sarah Banks

Opis

This fully updated new edition of Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of the core ethical dilemmas facing youth workers in their everyday practice.

The first part offers a clear outline of the nature of professional ethics, relevant ethical theories and an overview of the policy and organisational context of youth work. The second part is grounded firmly in practice, with experts in the field exploring specific issues that raise ethical challenges for youth workers, such as:

• when to breach confidentiality
• the ethics of participation/active citizenship
• how to balance the roles of control, empowerment and education
• negotiating personal and professional values, interests and commitments in youth work
• dilemmas for faith-based workers
• issues for workers supporting young people as researchers and as active citizens.

Ethical Issues in Youth Work offers a timely and unique insight into both the dilemmas of youth work practice and some of the more recent challenges faced by youth workers in the light of current public attitudes and government policy towards young people.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Ethical Context of Youth Work  1. Ethics and the Youth Worker  Sarah Banks  2. Working in Welfare: Youth Policy’s Contradictions and Dilemmas  Phil Mizen  3. Ethics, Collaboration and the Organisational Context of Youth Work  Kenneth McCulloch and Lyn Tett  4. Resourcing Youth Work: Dirty Hands and Tainted Money  Tony Jeffs and Mark K. Smith  Part 2: Ethical Issues in Practice  5. Youth Workers as Professionals: Managing Dual Relationships and Maintaining Boundaries  Howard Sercombe  6. Youth Workers as Moral Philosophers: Developing Right Thinking and Mindfulness  Kerry Young  7. Youth Workers as Controllers: Issues of Method and Purpose  Tony Jeffs  8. Youth Workers as Converters: Ethical Issues in Faith-based Youth Work  Maxine Green  9. Youth Workers as Critical Interpreters and Mediators: Ethical Issues in Working with Black Young People  Umme F. Imam and Rick Bowler  10. Youth Workers as Confidants: Issues of Welfare and Trust  Sue Morgan and Sarah Banks  11. Youth Workers as Researchers: Ethical Issues in Practitioner and Participatory Research  Janet Batsleer  12. Young People as Activists: Ethical Issues in Promoting and Supporting Active Citizenship  Jason Wood

O autorze

Sarah Banks is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University, UK.