Perspectives in Professional Child and Youth Care
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Beker, Jerome / Anglin, James P. / Denholm, Carey J., PUBLISHER: Routledge, Here are the information, ideas, ong>andong> inspiration that will help child care workers in their daily struggle to provide better care for children, youth, ong>andong> families. Perspectives in Professional Child ong>andong> Youth Care is a much-needed sourcebook of readings on the current state of the art of professional child ong>andong> youth care in North America. Some of the leading practitioners, academicians, researchers, ong>andong> administrators provide a "child care perspective," writing about what they--on the front lines--perceive as the most pressing issues ong>andong> significant topics in the ong>fieldong> today, including the nature of child ong>andong> youth care, current issues in education ong>andong> training, therapeutic program issues, key support functions in child ong>andong> youth programs, the changing work environment ong>andong> new roles, ong>andong> developing professionalism in the ong>fieldong> of child ong>andong> youth care. This enormously insightful book will be valuable for use in academic courses ong>andong> training workshops, as well as for individual child ong>andong> youth care professionals ong>andong> practitioners from related disciplines.