Connecting with Young People in Trouble: Risk, Relationships and Lived Experience Tapa blanda - 2021

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A powerful critique of existing youth services that spans lived experience, theory and practice. Contains first-hand accounts of relational change and sees youth crime via a refreshing new lens.

New. The only work of its kind, in which a Youth Justice Specialist with experiences of crime and incarceration as a young person combines those lived experiences with practice and teaching theory to show how services can better serve and empathise with children and young people in trouble. Andi Brierley explains why existing ways of dealing with children and adolescents can at times be counterproductive. From the everyday atmosphere of reporting arrangements, to preoccupation with risk-management processes, to the language used by professionals, the author invites us to re-assess the consequences. These can be especially problematic if practitioners do not connect, attune, and resonate effectively. Something which requires sensitivity to how youngsters' brains and bodies react to toxic stress, complex trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including within their home life and the impact of being exposed to attachments to adults and peers involved in criminality in their… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. A powerful critique of existing youth services that spans lived experience, theory and practice. Contains first-hand accounts of relational change and sees youth crime via a refreshing new lens.

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