Journal articles: 'Social work with youth'

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McDaniel, Monica. "Social Justice Youth Work: Actualizing Youth Rights." Journal of Youth Development 12, no. 1 (April 4, 2017): 136–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2017.488.

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This article explores models of prevention/intervention and positive youth development within the context of social justice. Both of these models seek to support young people, but they have vastly different methods and goals. The author argues that these models fall short of effectively supporting youth because they neglect to interrogate how power, privilege and oppressive forces shape a young person's identity and how that young person engages with society. Therefore, a new approach to working with youth is needed: a social justice youth work model. The author proposes this model as a means for youth and adults to work together to achieve a high quality of life in an equitable world. The paper outlines three steps to enact this approach with young people: 1. develop self-awareness within youth and adults; 2. build solidarity across differences; and 3. take action towards dismantling unjust systems. In order to do this work successfully, adults must first interrogate their own motivations for engaging in social justice work with youth.

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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn, and Samantha Bates. "Social Work and Youth Sport." Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 38, no. 4 (May 28, 2021): 359–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10560-021-00777-6.

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Smith, Alan. "Youth Justice and Social Work." Child & Family Social Work 13, no. 1 (January 9, 2008): 114–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2007.00534.x.

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Paylor, D. I. "Youth Justice and Social Work." British Journal of Social Work 42, no. 3 (April 1, 2012): 578–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcs030.

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Sadauskas, Justinas, and Vivian Kewoh-Vainio. "Specifics of social work with young people experiencing homelessness." SHS Web of Conferences 184 (2024): 01005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202418401005.

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There were about a 4.1million homeless people in the European Union [1]. In the European Union, 20-30 per cent of homeless people are young people between the ages of 18-29 years [2]. Homelessness is a concern for policymakers and society as a whole. Recent literature on social workers’ experiences with homeless people has mainly focused on working with the general homeless population and not specifically on social work with homeless youth. A qualitative research method was used to analyze the cause and consequences of youth homelessness, and identify skills needed for social work with young homeless people and inspiration of social workers motivation to help young homeless people. Five social workers working with young homeless people from a city in Finland participated in research. The semi-structured interview data were analysed using the content analysis method. The study revealed – causes and consequences of youth homelessness; skills needed for social work with young homeless people and social workers driving force working with homeless youths.

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Singh, Kirti Vikram. "Social work practice and youth welfare." Social ION 6, no. 2 (2017): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/2456-7523.2017.00008.8.

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Martin, Richard. "Review: Youth Justice and Social Work." Probation Journal 54, no. 2 (June 2007): 187–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02645505070540020602.

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Cheung, Chau-kiu, Jessica Chi-mei Li, and Tak-yan Lee. "Social Work Contribution to Desistance Among At-Risk Youth." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62, no. 5 (October 7, 2016): 1216–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x16672865.

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Desistance as a process to forgo delinquent habits is an important target for intervention into youth at risk of delinquency. The intervention through social work services, nevertheless, has not clearly demonstrated its effectiveness. For such a demonstration, the present study examines the contribution of social work services with reference to the voluntaristic theory of action. The theory suggests that promoting the youth’s voluntarism underlying desistance, encompassing appreciation, facilitation, observation, and identification concerning desistance is essential. The suggestion leads to the hypothesis that social work services promote the youth’s desistance through the promotion of voluntarism for desistance. This hypothesis gets support from this study of 586 at-risk youths in Hong Kong, with data collected from both the youths and their responsible social workers. The support implies the value of social work services for sustaining the youth’s desistance.

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Davidson, Emma. "Social justice or social control? An ethnographic study of detached youth work in Scotland." Scottish Affairs 29, no. 2 (May 2020): 254–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2020.0318.

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This article examines the experiences of a newly formed detached youth work project in Scotland and its relationship to neo-liberal ideology. The growth of neo-liberalism has, as with other social professions, made detached youth work vulnerable to a deficit-based approach. This has come hand-in-hand with managerial practices focused on efficient, targeted interventions delivered through short term budgets. The article, drawing on ethnographic data, describe a team of youth workers challenged with reconciling their deep commitment to delivering a programme of relational youth work with the targeted focus of the project on ‘risky’ youth and associated local apparatus of community safety. Throughout youth work's history the dividing line between youth work and mechanisms of social control has been slippery to navigate. The article argues that emergent neo-liberal ideology presents a further professional challenge to youth work. In the context of austerity and a widening neo-liberal policy agenda from Westminster, Scottish youth workers are being required to work harder to demonstrate that the service is not simply there to target ‘risky’ social groups or ‘plug the gaps’ that the state can no longer provide. Youth workers, in this context, must continue to make the case in defence of well-resourced, universal youth work and its potential to contribute to tackling social injustice and inequality.

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Taghi Sheykhi, Mohammad. "Social Work vs the Youth: A Sociological Appraisal." Clinical Medicine And Health Research Journal 1, no. 1 (August 25, 2021): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/cmhrj.v1i1.11.

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Sociologically speaking, to a large extent, social work can solve the existing and even the potential problems within the youth. Thus, the growing young population needs help from social work in the current changing world. Youth being a source of inspiration, quick receivers and urgent transmitters, they are sources of development and change in any area as well. Young people being subject to change, they are highly in need of counseling/ social work. Youth helpers often work in youth organizations, youth centers and the like___ helping boys or girls. Such centers are there in developed countries, whereas the developing countries are usually deprived of it. Such schemes explore, identify, and reinforce the specific abilities and capacities of young people. Therefore, launching youth study projects would eventually affect local and regional development as well. As Social work has received little attention in less developed countries, many young people feel weak or deficient in various ways. However, the lack of involvement of social workers/ counselors in such situations, causes young people feeling and facing a variety of abuses.

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Krueger, Mark, Amy Evans, John Korsmo, Joseph Stanley, and Quinn Wilder. "A Youth Work Inquiry." Qualitative Inquiry 11, no. 3 (June 2005): 369–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800405275058.

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Emslie, Michael. "Toward a Youth Work Profession." Child & Youth Services 34, no. 2 (April 2013): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0145935x.2013.785880.

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Krueger, Mark. "Interactive Youth and Family Work." Child & Youth Services 25, no. 1-2 (March 16, 2004): 55–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j024v25n01_04.

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Liang, Jianqiang, Guat Tin Ng, Ming-sum Tsui, Miu Chung Yan, and Ching Man Lam. "Youth unemployment: Implications for social work practice." Journal of Social Work 17, no. 5 (May 13, 2016): 560–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017316649357.

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Summary This article discusses a missing but emergent role of social work with unemployed young people. The authors highlight the transitional and structural factors of youth unemployment. Using a social work lens, the “Youth Employment Network” (YEN) is discussed and the International Labour Organization’s “4Es” (employability, equal opportunity, employment creation, entrepreneurship) framework is elaborated. This article adds a fifth “E” (Ecological connection) and proposes a “5Es” model for social workers to support unemployed young people to overcome transitional and structure barriers for employment. Findings Limited social work programs, studies, or evaluations are targeted for unemployed young people despite historical concern with employment conditions of workers and suggest the instrumental role in research, policy and practice concerning the unemployed young people. Applications Recommendations are provided in terms of how to implement the 5Es in policy, education, training, and direct practice of social work in youth employment.

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Kushbakova, A. "Youth as an Object of Social Work." Bulletin of Science and Practice 10, no. 7 (July 15, 2024): 532–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33619/2414-2948/104/64.

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Young people, their problems as a large and specific socio-demographic group, directions of socialization and processes of self-realization in society study various sciences and scientific disciplines, therefore, the most voluminous, generalizing “portrait” of a young person, a young generation (generation), above all in a specific historical time and in a particular society, can be to present only at the interdisciplinary level, that is, taking into account the data of many sciences. So, in the complex, the phenomenon of “youth” can only be considered by the sociology of youth.

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Brandon-Friedman, Richard A. "Youth Sexual Development: A Primer for Social Workers." Social Work 64, no. 4 (September 25, 2019): 356–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/swz027.

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Abstract Sexuality and sexual expression are core aspects of most clients’ lives, yet most schools of social work fail to cover sexual development, leaving social workers uninformed about this essential area of human development. This is particularly the case when the sexual development of youths is concerned, as youth sexuality is often considered too controversial to explore. Considering a positive approach to youth sexuality that seeks to enhance youths’ sexual development and promote their achievement of full sexual and reproductive rights, this article seeks to provide social workers with a resource they can use to enhance their understanding of youth sexual development and its applicability to social work practice. The two main theoretical orientations used to understand sexual identity development are covered as well as the research support for each. Following the explanation of theory is a discussion of how the two theoretical orientations can be integrated to form a more expansive base for the understanding of sexual identity development. A final section provides guidance on how an advanced understanding of youthful sexual identity development can enhance social work practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

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Merfeldaitė, Odeta, and Justina Dilytė. "COMPETENCES OF SOCIAL WORKERS FOR WORK WITH YOUTH: CASE ANALYSIS." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 4 (May 26, 2016): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2016vol4.1548.

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The Article reveals competences of social workers for work with youth based on the case analysis of social workers dealing with youth problems. It provides the content of social workers‘ competences, peculiarities of social work with youth from the professional point of view. Practical experience of social workers working with youth is interpreted as a reflection of professional activity of social workers which highlights the competences of social workers solving youth problems. The aim of the article is to evaluate competences of social workers working with youth. The research strategy was based on the perspective of constructivism, research applied a targeted – partially structured interview data collection method. The research revealed strengths of social workers working with youth: development of trust-based professional relationship, ability to work with a group of young people, empathy, ability to take the initiative, and ability to flexibly and creatively respond to situations. Yet some weaknesses of social workers solving youth problems have been identified: understanding the role and professional restrictions of social worker and problem solution skills.

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Lo, T. Wing, and H. L. Tam. "Working With Chinese Triad Youth Gangs: Correct Diagnosis and Strategic Intervention." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62, no. 12 (February 2, 2018): 3708–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624x18755482.

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Across the world, youth workers have been active in helping vulnerable youth groups. In Hong Kong, government-funded youth services are conducted by professional social workers to help vulnerable youths. This article adopted a case study approach to investigate a youth group who committed a murder. Nine murderers and two social workers were interviewed. It aims to uncover the structure and activities of the group and analyse the gang intervention prior to the murder to find out what had gone wrong and identify the lessons that social workers can learn from the murder. Four misconceptions in gang intervention have been identified. First, because of the Triad (Chinese-organised crime) affiliation, this is not just a group of deviant youths but a youth gang. Second, because it is a gang, the social workers should not group them but should instead degroup them to avoid contamination. Third, diagnosis is different from labelling. With the right diagnosis, services can be tailor-made to delabel them. Fourth, when the youths are diagnosed as a gang, outreach work instead of centre work should be provided—social workers should reach out to the gangland to uncover the youths’ gang participation and crime involvement.

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Stańkowski, Bogdan Wiesław, and Edyta Pindel. "Salesian Work with Socially-Maladjusted Youth Perceived from the Viewpoint of Paradigmatic Foundations of Contemporary Social Rehabilitation." Seminare. Poszukiwania naukowe 2020(41), no. 4 (December 31, 2020): 102–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.21852/sem.2020.4.09.

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In this article, the authors tackle the issue of Salesian social rehabilitation perceived from the point of view of the paradigmatic foundations of contemporary social rehabilitation. The scientific goal of this article is to look at the Salesian preventive system through the prism of the paradigmatic foundations in modern social rehabilitation. The article is based on the analysis of available literature on the subject. The analyzes undertaken allow to state that the Salesian preventive system fits into the paradigms of social rehabilitation in the Polish context. Therefore, the presented analyzes prove that this system correlates with paradigms functioning in contemporary social rehabilitation practiced in relation to socially maladjusted youth.

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Baidarova, O., and D. Lavrentieva. "SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE WITH HEARING IMPAIRED YOUTH." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Social work 1, no. 1 (2017): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2616-7786.2017/1-1/10.

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ШИЧКИН, И. А., and Е. В. ШУБЕНКОВА. "DECENT WORK AND YOUTH MIGRATION." Экономика и предпринимательство, no. 11(148) (May 13, 2023): 1118–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.34925/eip.2022.148.11.221.

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В данной статье рассматриваются проблемы достойного труда и занятости молодежи на глобальном уровне в условиях возрастающей прекаризации различных сфер общественной жизни. Молодые люди позиционируются в качестве одной из наиболее уязвимых социальных групп на рынке труда, испытывающих длительный и небезопасный переход от учебы к работе, затруднения в поиске оплачиваемой занятости, нестабильный характер социально-трудовых отношений, дефицит социальной защиты и трудовую дискриминацию. Проведена обзорная характеристика эмпирических исследований миграции молодежи. Представлен краткий анализ современных тенденций молодежной миграции в мире, в том числе описаны детерминанты, факторы и последствия миграции молодежи. Обозначены ключевые инициативы международных организаций в сфере содействия достойному труду для молодежи. The article focuses on issues of decent work and youth employment in the world in terms of increasing precarization affecting various spheres of public life. Young people are positioned as one of the most vulnerable social groups in labour market which is suffers a long and unsafe transition from study to work, difficulties in finding paid employment, precarious nature of social and labour relations, a lack of social protection, and also labour discrimination. An overview of empirical researches of youth migration has carried out. There is a brief analysis of current trends in youth migration in the world, including the determinants, factors and consequences of youth migration. The key initiatives of international organizations in terms of promoting decent work for young people has outlined.

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Krueger, Mark. "Four themes in youth work practice." Journal of Community Psychology 33, no. 1 (2004): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.20033.

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Yum, Steven Ngai Sek. "Exploring emancipatory youth work." International Social Work 49, no. 4 (July 2006): 471–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872806065325.

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English The present study explores the possibility of emancipatory youth work from a Foucauldian perspective focusing on practitioners' potential as a force for change. Based on narratives generated from interviews with outreach youth workers in Hong Kong, the study shows how workers have invented their own style of liberating practice. The implications of the findings are discussed. French La présente étude explore les possibilités du travail d'émancipation auprès des jeunes selon une perspective foucaldienne focalisant sur le potentiel des praticiens comme moteur de changement. En se basant sur les récits obtenus à la suite d'entrevues avec des travailleurs de proximité auprès des jeunes à Hong Kong, l'étude montre comment ces travailleurs ont créé leur propre style de libération de la pratique. Les résultats de la recherche sont analysés. Spanish Se explora la posibilidad de trabajo emancipatorio con jóvenes desde una perspectiva foucauldiana, enfocándose en el potencial del trabajador social como una fuerza de cambio. Partiendo de narrativas generadas en entrevistas con trabajadores con jóvenes en el Hong Kong, el estudio muestra como estos trabajadores han inventado su propio estilo de práctica liberadora. Se exponen las implicaciones de los resultados.

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PHILLIPS, SARAH, and KENT L. SANDSTROM. "Parental Attitudes toward Youth Work." Youth & Society 22, no. 2 (December 1990): 160–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118x90022002003.

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Johnston-Goodstar, Katie. "Indigenous Youth Participatory Action Research: Re-visioning Social Justice for Social Work with Indigenous Youths." Social Work 58, no. 4 (October 1, 2013): 314–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/swt036.

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Mursaleen, Muhammad, and Raminta Bardauskiene. "Challenges of Social Work with Youth in Pakistan." Global Sociological Review VIII, no. I (March 30, 2023): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2023(viii-i).01.

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The present study has evaluated the current situation of youth social work in Karachi as well highlights the importance and key issues faced by working youth in the country. A qualitative methodology has been used for the current studty. The researcher has selected ten respondents having at least 5-10 years of experience from the education sector of Karachi. A set of 5 questions were developed that targeted the themes of gendered biasness, communication issues, safety threats, and concerns, funding problems and the impact of governmental restrictions and unrest. The results of the study highlight the vitality of communication in social organizations in order to resolve the barriers. The main safety concerns to the NGOs are from the religious and societal extremists. The government hasn’t supported the developmental and relief initiatives of the social organizations and therefore funding issues are faced by most of the institutions. The study has bridged the importance of the necessity to commence dialogue on a tabooed issue for the development and betterment of the youth of the country.

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Chang, Elvi, Stefan Sjöberg, Päivi Turunen, and Komalsingh Rambaree. "Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development: Exploring Ecosocial Work Discourses." Sustainability 14, no. 6 (March 15, 2022): 3426. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14063426.

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Youth empowerment within the context of sustainable development (SD) is starting to gain more attention within social work, both internationally and in Sweden. SD, as an integrated set of global goals in tackling social, economic, and ecological challenges, is a vital concept in social work. Protecting people and the natural environment can be considered the fullest realization of the person-in-environment, a foundation upon which the social work profession is built. The ecosocial perspective is widely discussed in terms of societal transformation in harmony with nature. Within this context, this article explores ecosocial work discourses in youth empowerment. Data were gathered through 20 qualitative semi-structured interviews with key representatives of youth organizations from Gävle municipality, Sweden, and analyzed using ATLAS.ti v.9.0. The main findings are discussed within the framework of ecosocial work, youth empowerment, and a Foucauldian perspective on discourse, power, and knowledge. The results indicate the need for an ecosocial youth empowerment, calling for increased knowledge of both youth empowerment through SD and ecosocial work for those working with/for youth connected to social work practice. The results highlight the importance of an ecosocial youth empowerment on a more structural and collective level.

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Коляда, Наталия Николаевна. "Youth work in Ukraine: new approaches to the strategic sector of social policy." Studia Gdańskie. Wizje i rzeczywistość XIV (June 3, 2018): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.2526.

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The article highlights new approaches to youth work, training of youth workers as strategic direction of social policy reform in the context of the draft Law of Ukraine On Youth. Current practice indicates a number of topical issues related to the preparation and formation of professional skills and social competencies of social workers – future implementers of youth policy. In particular, the practice demonstrates the failure of existing forms of training, which are now mostly limited academic training specialists in the social and socio-educational fields in universities. Modernity requires wider distribution of non-traditional and innovative forms of formation of personnel potential in the field of youth work. An example of an innovative approach to youth issues in general and youth training personnel reform is a new draft Law of Ukraine On Youth, developed by a group of MPs, together with the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and experts UNICEF resuscitation reform package. Key areas of the bill are: employment, housing and youth building support young people in difficult circumstances, cultural development, health and physical development, legal protection. Along with the traditional preliminary legal instruments in the field of youth policy, such as informal youth associations, youth organizations, national-patriotic education of youth and others. The draft appears a number of terms that make the content innovative potential of social youth policy, namely vulnerable young people, youth work, youth participation and the Council, Youth Advisory Council, a youth worker, youth center, informal education of young people and others.

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Filippova, E. A., and V. N. Egorova. "SOCIAL WORK WITH UNEMPLOYED YOUTH IN RURAL AREAS." KAZAN SOCIALLY-HUMANITARIAN BULLETIN 10, no. 3 (June 2019): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24153/2079-5912-2019-10-3-34-37.

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LEVCHENKO, Nataliia. "TRAINING OF FUTURE SOCIAL WORKERS FOR YOUTH WORK." Humanitas, no. 2 (2022): 14–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.32782/humanitas/2022.2.2.

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Moses, Tally, and Stuart A. Kirk. "Social Work Roles in Drug Treatment with Youth." Social Work in Mental Health 6, no. 3 (February 21, 2008): 59–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j200v06n03_04.

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Johnson, Sharon D., Larry E. Davis, and James H. Williams. "Enhancing Social Work Practice with Ethnic Minority Youth." Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 21, no. 6 (December 2004): 611–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10560-004-6407-3.

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Ovcharova, Valeriia. "Current regulatory legal framework of youth engagement into volunteering activities within social work." Scientific bulletin of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky 2020, no. 4 (133) (December 24, 2020): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.24195/2617-6688-2020-4-1.

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Considering the decentralisation reform and processes of institutionalisation of youth work in Ukraine, the issue regarding the regulation of youth engagement into volunteering activities within social work at the national and local levels remains unclear. The researching is aimed at analysing the current condition for regulating youth engagement into volunteering activities within social work in the context of legislative changes caused by the decentralisation and youth policy reforms. To conduct this study, scientific works, key researches, and the legislation of Ukraine were analysed. These Ukrainian Laws have been analysed: «On volunteering activities», «On social formation and development of youth», «On social work with families, children and youth», «On social services», «Оn uniting of territorial communities on an optional basis», Draft Law «On general principles of youth policy». We have also reviewed the changes in regulations of the social work with youth on the local level in accordance with the Decrees of the Cabinet of the Ministry of Ukraine № 177 (dated March 3, 2020), № 479 (dated June 1, 2020), № 1014 (dated December 20, 2017). We have determined that according to the modern legislation, the tasks devoted to the development and support of the volunteer movement in the field of social work with youth is one of the main directions of the state policy in the sphere of social work with youth. However, in the system of social work with youth at the local level, this direction is not regulated; it is not clearly assigned to any institution of social work either. Some tasks aimed at the development of the youth volunteer movement at the local level are fixed only in the activities of youth centres which are currently engaged exclusively in the implementation of the youth policy.

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Kovacheva, Siyka, and Darena Hristozova. "Striding on a Winding Road: Young People’s Transitions from Education to Work in Bulgaria." Societies 12, no. 4 (June 23, 2022): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc12040097.

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The transition from education to work in the global economy is no longer a straightforward one-time move for young people. In Bulgaria, this change started with the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in the 1990s and was accompanied by the arrival of high rates of early school leaving, youth unemployment, and a growing group of disengaged youths (NEETs). The European initiatives in support of youth labour market integration are translated locally, with a narrow focus on “employability” while neglecting the many educational, training, and social needs of young people. The analysis in this paper is informed by the theoretical framework of life course research. It starts with an elaboration of the recontextualisation of EU policies such as the Youth Guarantee in the local realities of socioeconomic structures using Eurostat and national data. Second, we present 4 case studies (selected out of a total of 42 in-depth interviews) of young adults aged 18–30 in order to highlight the ways in which young people’s individual agency filters and influences the institutional policies and practices regulating youth social integration. Our qualitative analysis reveals the multiplicity and diversity of youth journeys into work through the institutions and social structures and the inadequacy of the applied policy measures.

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Moreno, Esteban Sánchez, and Ana Barrón López de Roda. "Social Risk Factors in Spanish Youth and their Impact on Self-Concept Construction." Spanish Journal of Psychology 10, no. 2 (November 2007): 328–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1138741600006594.

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This paper presents evidence from a psychosocial framework about the relationship among youth, work, and identity construction. The aims of this research were twofold. The first one was to analyze the working conditions of Spanish youth and their impact on individuals' biographies. The second one was to examine the effect of labor-related variables on construction / change of identity elements in Spanish youth. For this purpose, two research techniques were used: the Delphi method (103 experts sample from several entities and organizations closely related to our topic) and deep interviews (15 interviews with youths classified according to their relationship with the work market).

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Koliada, Nataliia, Oksana Kravchenko, and Nataliia Levchenko. "DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH WORK IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: ACADEMIC, SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED ASPECTS." Social work and social education, no. 1(12) (April 30, 2024): 146–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2618-0715.1(12).2024.305292.

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The article reveals the peculiarities of the development of youth work in institutions of higher education.Youth work is a promising field of professional activity with young people, which requires the development of training and employment of youth workers, the level of popularization of youth work in all regions and cities of Ukraine.The development of youth policy, youth work in institutions of higher education has academic and applied aspects and has gone from an educational discipline to scientific and practical developments.Using the example of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, the history of the development of youth policy, youth work from academic discipline to scientific and practical developments is covered. In particular, since 2018, the educational and professional program «Social work (Youth work)» has been implemented at the second level of higher education «master» in the specialty «231 Social work».In the context of the development of youth policy as an educational component, later – a separate educational program, there was a vital need to conduct scientific research in this direction. Initially, these were studies on the history of youth work. Subsequently, the historical-pedagogical vector of research was expanded by scientific investigations into the theory and practice of social work, particularly youth work. Scientific research in the field of youth work, youth policy within the educational and scientific program «Social Work» of the third (educational and scientific) level of higher education (specialty 231 «Social Work», educational degree «Doctor of Philosophy») and scientific program deserve special attention «Theoretical and methodological foundations of training future social workers for youth work» (specialty 231 «Social work», scientific level «Doctor of Sciences»).In 2018, the youth center «START» was established at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University. The purpose of the center's activity is comprehensive development and self-realization of youth in various spheres of social life, disclosure of their potential, protection of interests and rights, promotion of social formation and development, professional orientation and organization of meaningful leisure time, support of talented, gifted youth.The authors, on the basis of the theory and practice of youth work, taking into account the suggestions of stakeholders, determined the prospects for the academic, scientific and applied aspects of the youth policy in the context of the development of social youth policy in Ukraine.

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Wang, Jiayi. "The Paths of Social Work in Youth Health Education." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 8, no. 1 (September 14, 2023): 262–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/8/20230131.

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In the context of the continuous development of society and the popu-larization of the Internet, social work should help young people to ex-pand access to sex education with professional knowledge combined with their specific conditions. The intervention of youth health through social work helps to cultivate young peoples personal ability and establish correct youth health values and sexual morality. Under the existing social environment and objective conditions, it mainly relies on the professional knowledge of social work to provide professional and targeted help from the perspective of family, school and community, peer education. Furthermore, group work and new media resources can be employed to improve adoles-cents cognition of youth health knowledge and realize the self-teaching and self-discipline of youth health knowledge education. The paper seeks to promote the social importance of college students health education, to bet-ter understand the necessity of home and school adolescent physical and psychological health education, and to explore to provide some effective im-plementation of the path so that to carry out related projects smoothly later.

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Bland, Robert, Noel Renouf, and Ann Tullgren. "Social Work Practice in Mental Health: An Introduction." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28, no. 3 (November 17, 2016): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss3id253.

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Tamam, Ezhar, Turiman Suandi, Ismi Arif Ismail, Steven Eric Krauss, Dzuhailmi Dahalan, Khairuddin Idris, and Nur Fatihah Abdullah Bandar. "Benchmarking Malaysian Youth Work Practitioner Ethics." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review 3, no. 10 (2009): 153–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1882/cgp/v03i10/52750.

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Best, Amy. "Youth Identity Formation: Contemporary Identity Work." Sociology Compass 5, no. 10 (October 2011): 908–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00411.x.

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CHUN, ROXCO P. K., Y. H. CHUI, Y. C. CHAN, and HOWARD C. H. CHENG. "POLICE WORK WITH YOUTH-AT-RISK: WHAT CAN SOCIAL WORK CONTRIBUTE?" Hong Kong Journal of Social Work 44, no. 01 (January 2010): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219246210000057.

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While traditional policing focuses on crime control by law enforcement, the Hong Kong Police Force has increasingly affirmed the importance of multi-agency collaboration and service-orientation in their work. The change provides impetus for venturing on more innovative training for police. The Police Attachment to NGOs Program is an unprecedented tailor-made multi-agency training program for serving police officers in Hong Kong. A series of these training programs were commissioned to the Department of Applied Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. So far, seven rounds of training have been completed. The program consisted of three phases — the pre-attachment induction phase, the attachment phase and the post-attachment deepening phase. The trainees were provided with opportunities to dialog with the social workers and youth-at-risk directly, an experience evaluated by the trainees as stimulating and rewarding. The program also generated benefits to the social workers and the service users of the NGOs because they both could gain better understanding of the police mindset, their work and difficulties. This paper discusses what social work can contribute in police training, including the design of the program, its implementation, and evaluation of its effect. In a way, the training can be regarded as an indirect social work practice from which both the young people and the society can benefit. Since the trained police officers can avoid stereotyping the youth-at-risk and have better collaboration with social workers, this training is able to enhance police work with youth-at-risk. 傳統警務工作重點在於預防罪案和執法。但香港警務處近年不斷强調多機構合作和以服務爲取向的警務工作摸式，爲警務培訓工作提供了革新的的機遇。「青鋒計劃」 (Police Attachment to NGOs Program) 是一項嶄新、具針對性、並强調多機構合作的在職警務培訓項目。計劃可分爲三個部份 —— 導引期，機構體驗期，和深化期。透過與前線社工和邊青直接對話，警務學員普遍認爲這項體驗計劃，獲益良多。另一方面，這計劃也爲參與的社工和邊青帶來了益處。他們表示對警方的工作和難處都增加了認識和諒解。本文章探討社會工作對警務培訓可以作出的供献，包括了培訓的設計，執行和檢討成效。無疑，這項培訓是一項間接的社會工作實踐，社工參與這項培訓，減少警察對邊青定型，促成警務人員和前線社工在處理邊青問題上的互相了解，對各方都有益處。

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Pawluczuk, Alicja, Gemma Webster, Colin Smith, and Hazel Hall. "The Social Impact of Digital Youth Work: What Are We Looking For?" Media and Communication 7, no. 2 (June 11, 2019): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i2.1907.

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Digital youth work is an emerging field of research and practice which seeks to investigate and support youth-centred digital literacy initiatives. Whilst digital youth work projects have become prominent in Europe in recent years, it has also become increasingly difficult to examine, capture, and understand their social impact. Currently, there is limited understanding of and research on how to measure the social impact of collaborative digital literacy youth projects. This article presents empirical research which explores the ways digital youth workers perceive and evaluate the social impact of their work. Twenty semi-structured interviews were carried out in Scotland, United Kingdom, in 2017. All data were coded in NVivo 10 and analysed using thematic data analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006). Two problems were identified in this study: (1) limited critical engagement with the social impact evaluation process of digital youth work projects and its outcomes, and (2) lack of consistent definition of the evaluation process to measure the social impact/value of digital youth work. Results of the study are examined within a wider scholarly discourse on the evaluation of youth digital participation, digital literacy, and social impact. It is argued that to progressively work towards a deeper understanding of the social value (positive and negative) of digital youth engagement and their digital literacy needs, further research and youth worker evaluation training are required. Recommendations towards these future changes in practice are also addressed.

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Petrenko, Oksana. "REVIEW TO THE DIRECTORY «ENCYCLOPEDIA OF YOUTH WORK» (2022)." Social work and social education, no. 2(9) (November 21, 2022): 361–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2618-0715.2(9).2022.267389.

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In modern society, youth work is usually understood as a tool for personal development, social integration and active citizenship of young people. Youth work is a «keyword» for all types of activities of a social, cultural, educational or political nature, which are done together with young people, for young people and by the forces of young people themselves. It belongs to the field of education outside the educational institution, most often associated with non-formal or informal education. «Encyclopedia of youth work» is a reference and analytical work that highlights the problems of theory, history and practice of youth work, youth policy. The preparation of the publication was carried out in accordance with the work plan of the Youth Center «START» of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, concluded by scientific and pedagogical workers and graduate students of the Department of Social Pedagogy and Social Work of Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University.

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Levchenko, Nataliіa. "«YOUTH» AND «YOUTH WORK»: MEANING OF CONCEPTS." Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Series: «Pedagogy. Social Work», no. 2(49) (December 18, 2021): 85–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2524-0609.2021.49.85-91.

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Youth is the predominant component of modern Ukrainian society, major factor of socio-economic progress, the driving force of youth work. The purpose of the article is to analyze the semantic content of the basic concept of «youth» in the context of the development of youth work as a field of scientific and practical activities. Research methods: on the basis of the analysis of scientific literature and legal documents, comparison of scientific sources and regulations characterizing a subject of research, the basic aspects of conceptual-terminological content of concepts «youth» and «youth work» are covered; synthesis and generalization of scientific and regulatory sources helped to form definition of the basic concepts of the study. The article analyzes the definition of «youth», «youth work» in the scientific and formal business literature; the main tasks of youth work are defined; It is noted that young people are the bearers of great intellectual potential, new and modern knowledge from various spheres of public life. The research uses such methods as analysis, comparison and generalization of scientific sources on the researched problem. The study highlights the main needs of young people: social and economic; adherence to a healthy lifestyle; involvement in public life; national and patriotic identity; tolerance; assessment of the effectiveness of public policy; the values of youth are determined in the following directions: values of youth, efficiency of youth policy (assessed by youth); civic and political activity of youth; participation and role of youth in the processes of state reformation; training, education; mobility and migration guidelines for young people; family and family values of young people.We have determined that youth work is work with young people, which is aimed at: personal and professional development with the acquisition of relevant competencies; youth participation in public life; involving young people in planning and decision-making at the local, regional and national levels.

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Paulauskytė, Neringa, and Neringa Povilaitienė. "Youth international volunteering in the context of social work." Applied Scientific Research 3, no. 1 (January 13, 2024): 113–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.56131/tmt.2024.3.1.196.

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The article analyzes the peculiarities of youth voluntary work when choosing and carrying out voluntary activities in foreign countries in the context of the field of social work. The sources of scientific information about the motivations for choosing volunteering, international volunteering activities and the social benefits created by volunteering have been examined. The internal and external motives that encourage volunteers to choose voluntary activities in foreign countries have been investigated, the social benefits of international volunteering have been clarified and the challenges of volunteers in international volunteering have been revealed. Research methods: a qualitative study was conducted in order to investigate youth international social work volunteering. Structured interview was used as a data collection method, qualitative content analysis method was used to process the research data. Research sample: 6 volunteers were interviewed during the research. Keywords: youth international volunteering, altruism, volunteering.

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Cooper, Trudi, Tim Corney, and Jamie Gorman. "Youth Work for People and Planet: Integrating Insights from Ecopedagogy into Youth Work." Youth 4, no. 2 (May 24, 2024): 735–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/youth4020049.

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Youth work is not unitary, has a diverse history, and draws upon differing traditions; however, the focus of all major youth work traditions has been anthropocentric. This approach is now challenged by young people themselves through the climate justice movement, and institutionally through the United Nations Agenda 2030 resolution, which has developed integrated Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to “balance” social, environmental, and economic imperatives. This article examines what insights can be gained from ecopedagogy that would enable youth work to fully integrate an ecological perspective alongside traditional anthropological concerns. The discussion focuses on the nexus and tensions between ecopedagogy and youth work from a theoretical perspective to draw out insights into how changes need to be made to the aims and purposes of youth work, how this might be achieved, and barriers in the current environment.

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Phelan, Jack. "Child and Youth Care Family Support Work." Child & Youth Services 25, no. 1-2 (March 16, 2004): 67–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j024v25n01_05.

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BRADFORD, SIMON. "UNIVERSALS AND PARTICULARISM ENGLISH YOUTH WORK." Asia Pacific Journal of Youth Studies 9, no. 1 (December 30, 2013): 121–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.56390/apjys2024.9.9.

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ABSTRACT Trusting, open and voluntarily established personal relationships between youth workers and young people have been central to youth work since the 1960s, and youth work’s educational traditions emphasize an optimistic and hopeful account of youth and young people. Recent changes in public services, broadly associated with neo-liberal political ideology, have led to a policy departure from youth work’s informal educational aims. Youth workers are increasingly required to adopt a more instrumental approach to achieving auditable objectives, typified by targeted work with so-called at risk young people. The paper argues that this broad shift undermines youth work’s educational centre of gravity and moves it from a broadly expressive to an instrumental register, threatening youth work’s distinctive educational and social identity. Keywords: Youth, Policy, Professionalism, Education, Audit, Managerialism

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Cheon, Jeong Woong, and Edward R. Canda. "The Meaning and Engagement of Spirituality for Positive Youth Development in Social Work." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 91, no. 2 (April 2010): 121–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3981.

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Spirituality is becoming recognized as an important source of strength within social work and the positive youth development field. However, social work innovations related to spirituality have mainly focused on adults. In order to increase focus on youth, this article integrates insights about spirituality from the positive youth development field and social work. First, it provides a conceptualization of spirituality in relation to youth. Second, the article explains the importance of spirituality for strengths-based social work that can enhance youth development by attending to issues of meaning and identity, development toward adulthood, risk factors, and personal and environmental religious and spiritual resources. It highlights spirituality-based helping practices that may be applicable to working with youth.

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Yastochkina , Irina. "INNOVATIVE SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES AT WORK WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH." Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Series: «Pedagogy. Social Work», no. 2(49) (December 18, 2021): 245–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.24144/2524-0609.2021.49.245-248.

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The article disclosed the content of the concepts «innovation», «social innovation», «social technology», «innovative social technology». It is indicated that one of the features of modern social technology is its innovative nature. The purpose of the article is to define the essence of the concept of «innovative social technologies», substantiate and analyze the possibilities of their application in work with children and youth. Innovation is increasingly becoming the subject of scientific research in the social sphere. The main attention of researchers is focused on innovative technologies in social work, innovative processes, innovative methods, types and subjects of social innovation, innovative practices of social work with vulnerable groups in Ukraine. It is noted that the emergence of innovative technology is determined by the needs and social problems of society, requires accurate planning, serious training and qualified personnel. For social pedagogy, the term «innovation» currently remains new and poorly researched. This term is interpreted in two meanings: innovation as a process and innovation as a product. The characteristics, functions and sources of social innovation are considered. It is emphasized that innovations actively influence the surrounding social environment. For social work, social pedagogy, an essential characteristic of innovation is its social consequences. The social processes that determine the growth of innovative activity in the social sphere are indicated. Innovative technologies exist in two forms: in the form of programs and documents and in the form of social processes. It was also noted that children and youth are quite often the most vulnerable social categories and need qualified assistance and support. The presence of social problems prompts the development and implementation of innovative technologies for social work with children and youth. The innovative social technologies in working with children are listed. The innovative forms of the implementation of youth work in Ukraine have been identified. The promising directions of innovative activity in the social sphere, including in the social and pedagogical work with children and youth, are indicated.

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