It can be easy to imagine that child and youth care practitioners are inherently or naturally attuned to issues of diversity and colonization as they pertain to multicultural practice. While there are excellent culturally attuned practices that are happening in the field of child and youth care, when it comes to collecting stories of cultural diversity and, more specifically, the problematic unfolding of some of these stories, there remains hesitancy in the field. The authors of this volume suggest otherwise, and their chapters represent an important contribution to the field.

Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with young people. The necessity to reconsider how various modes of praxis are deployed is premised in an acknowledgement that the socio-political landscape, in which this work is embedded, has shifted considerably in the twenty-first century. The editors argue that the traditional modes of civil society designed to integrate and shape young people as functioning members of society such as education, the family, modes of psychotherapy, as well as orphanages and other forms of...