Providing Support to Young People

<p>This is an invaluable guide to making the most of helping relationships. It concentrates on the practicalities and explores how to structure the help practitioners give to young people.</p><p>Including case studies reflective exercises and dialogue examples that illustrate the model and use of skills chapters cover:</p><ul> <li>the context for youth support services and what ‘professional helping’ and youth support roles involve</li> <li>the practical development of the helping skills and strategies required by a practitioner </li> <li>concepts from various counselling models that have particular relevance for helping young people and discussing ‘hard to reach’ young people </li> <li>the stages of Egan’s skilled helper model in some depth applying it particularly to youth support work. </li> </ul><p>Describing an accessible ‘how-to’ approach to engaging with young people this book will be essential reading to all those working in information advice guidance and youth support settings whether giving first-in-line or intensive support to young people. </p>