At-Risk Children and Youth : Resiliency Explored

ISBN-13: 9780789033826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 334 str.

Niall McElwee

Opis

What assistance can be provided to a disadvantaged youngster to help them bounce back to conquer challenges while growing up? At-Risk Children and Youth analyzes the results from accumulated research on the risk and resiliency of children and youth in Ireland. Niall McElwee shines a crucial spotlight on the challenges facing children, including poor literacy and numeracy skills, poverty, distrust, and other difficult issues. Practical strategies are presented to help disadvantaged children and youth to overcome societal and self-imposed barriers for improvement. A detailed review and assessment is provided of the efficacy of Ireland's Youth Encounter Projects. This important resource focuses on what works and what does not in youth services.

Spis treści

• Foreword (John Hanna)
• Acknowledgments
• Irish Association of Social Care Educator’s Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to John Hanna (Niall McElwee)
• Chapter 1. Snowflake Children
• Chapter 2. From Risk to At-Risk
• Chapter 3. A Focus on the Personal and Structural: Resilience Explored
• Chapter 4. Riding the Juggernaut in the Risk Society
• Chapter 5. Putting the Study Together
• Chapter 6. Now Is the Time: A Toxic Era for Child and Youth Care
• Chapter 7. “Learn What You Like and Like What You Learn”: The Youth Encounter Projects and St. Augustine’s Special School, Limerick City
• Chapter 8. Listening to ’At-Risk’ Youth
• Chapter 9. Framing the Future for Children and Youth in the Risk Society
• Chapter 10. Children and Youth: The Evolution of At Risk to “High Promise” Youth
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Niall McElwee