The Space Between: Bridging the Gap Between Workers and Young People Book

The Space Between offers groupwork approaches to work with young people who are at risk - for any reason - of:; being in contact with the juvenile justice system; coming before the courts; being received into care. The goal is to help workers to: develop direct work with young people that can stand alone, for example on anger, bullying, self-worth, motivation and creativity, personal relationships with family and peer group, leaving home, sexuality, racism, harassment. help develop work together with specialist partners on matters such as substance abuse, delinquency and criminality, health, housing and homelessness, prostitution, sexual abuse. Anita Mountain provides self-study material and a workbook approach to help you achieve these goals by presenting tried and tested games and exercises that can be used in specific circumstances that the young people whom this book is designed to help may find themselves. She wrote the predecessor to this book (Lifting the Limits, NYB 1989) from ideas shared during consultations with workers and young women within the juvenile justice system. This new book is extensively reworked, enriched and extended by her subsequent ten years' work as a cRead More