Publications
Providing Support to Young People: A guide to interviewing in helping relationships
by Hazel Reid and Alison Fielding.
Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-41959-8
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-41960-4
Abstract:
Practioners who participate in helping, supporting or advising young people, whatever their role of working context, need a model to inform their practice. This invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships concentrates on the practicalities and explores how to structure the help practitioners give to young people.
Providing Support to Young People discusses the context for contemporary youth support work before moving on to the practical development of the helping skills and strategies required by a practitioner. Drawing on established and 'new' approaches in guidance, the book presents a model developed specifically for the current working context where helpers work holistically across agencies for the benefit of young people. This framework:
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provides a structure for effective face-to-face interactions with young people
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has a number of beneficiaries: the young person being helped, the practitioner, the employer and the funding body
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is flexible, allowing for the range of situations that youth support workers may be working in
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stresses the need for the work to be collaborative with the full involvement of the young people concerned.
Complete with case studies and reflective exercises, this 'how to' book will be invaluable to all those working in information, advice, guidance and youth support settings, whether giving firyst-in-line or intensive support to young people.