Working with High-Risk Youth

ISBN-13: 9781032419480 / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str.

Peter Smyth

Opis

This fully revised and expanded second edition focusses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, exploitation risk, mental health issues, and the inability to self-regulate and trust - a population that government child welfare services and community agencies struggle to serve adequately.

Spis treści

1.Introduction: The Get Connected Practice Framework.  2.Where Do High Risk Youth Come From? Part A: The Attachment Perspective.  3.Where Do High Risk Youth Come From? Part B: The Neuroscience Perspective.  4.Broken Spirits: The Battle with Addictions.  5.Why A Harm Reduction Philosophy is Essential for Working with High-Risk Youth.  6.Building from Strengths and Promoting Resiliency.  7.Engaging Community, Engaging Youth.  8.Getting Connected: The Profound Importance of Relationship.  9.Strategies for Engaging and Working with High Risk Youth.  10.No Room for Error: Boundaries and Ethics and High Risk Youth.  11.Is This Really How It Ends? Seamless Transitions and Meaningful Goodbyes.  12.Conclusion: A Reason for Optimism.

O autorze

Peter Smyth, MSW, RSW, MSM, was the Specialist for High Risk Youth Services, overseeing the High Risk Youth Initiative with Alberta Children’s Services Edmonton Region, where he worked for 32 years. He developed a practice framework and philosophy incorporating non-traditional intervention methods to better meet the needs of complex, troubled and street-involved youth population. The first edition of his book, High Risk Youth: A Relationship-Based Practice Framework, was released in 2017. He has written book chapters and articles about issues confronting youth. He provides consultation, training and workshops on engaging and working with youth. Peter is currently a senior interventionist the Organization for the Prevention of Violence, Evolve Program, in Edmonton. Peter is a sessional instructor at the University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work, and at the MacEwan University School of Social Work. In 2020, Peter received the Canada Governor General Meritorious Service Medal (Civil Division) for his work with youth.