Self-worth in children and young people
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Self-worth in children and young people
Critical and practical considerations
AUTHOR : By Rachel Burr
ISBN : 9781914171772
Edition No : 1
Publication : Sep 5, 2022
Extent : 126 pgs
ISBN : 9781914171789
Edition No : 1
Publication : Sep 5, 2022
Extent : 126 pgs
ISBN : 9781914171796
Edition No : 1
Publication : Sep 5, 2022
Extent : 126 pgs
Description
Challenges current adult-led approaches to working with vulnerable young people, and introduces practitioners and students to creative methods that will enhance the self-worth of children and teenagers.
Anthropologist and social worker, Rachel Burr, outlines clear communication techniques for working with children and young people to support them towards self-determination. By critically examining the dominant approaches to children and young people’s mental health, she provides straightforward practical strategies that can be used to address emotional upset, loss, and aid recovery.
There has never been a more pressing time to encourage young people and children to engage in methods that allow them to develop a new sense of self-worth and purpose. Whether you’re a professional already working with children, or a student studying for a child-related qualification, this strength-based approach will help you to help children and young people develop a stronger sense of self which can be taken forward and used independently.
Contents
Introduction: Why now?:
Chapter 1: The state of childhood today
Chapter 2: Mental health and wellbeing
Chapter 3: Current approaches to mental health support for children and young people
Chapter 4: A new way of thinking
Chapter 5: Learning from children and young people
Chapter 6: Young children speak out
Chapter 7: It takes more than a mantra
Conclusion: The long and winding road
Author
Rachel Burr is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex where she was instrumental in establishing postgraduate and undergraduate programmes in Childhood and Youth Studies. Until recently she was course lead on the BA in Childhood and Youth. Rachel also teaches on qualifying programmes in social work. An anthropologist and social worker with an international background in child protection, her overarching focus is on developing practitioner-orientated techniques for working with and enhancing emotional strength among children and young people who are living in challenging and difficult circumstances.
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"This theoretically and experientially engaging and grounded book powerfully promotes the rightful status that children and young people must be afforded in contemporary society. Written by Dr Rachel Burr, whose professional values and behaviours demonstrably model the book's message - children and childhood matter -, it is a 'must read' for all concerned with the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people."
“It is very rare for a child rights specialist to engage with therapeutic issues in working with children and young people; still more unusual to offer practical, accessible advice on groupwork with children and young people of all ages in a manner that is sensitive to institutional and systemic power dynamics…The detailed examples are especially useful, as well as the critical reflections…Rachel Burr brings together her unique skills and experience as a social worker, child therapist, and also international child rights researcher and anthropologist to provide a culturally and generationally-sensitive and practical guide for innovative support and developmental work with children and young people in a range of settings.”
"This is a warm and wise book, woven through with insights from the author’s 25 years’ experience of working with children and young people and a lifetime of reflection and study. Steeped in an in-depth knowledge of psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work and studies of children and young people’s mental health, it is grounded by vibrant and moving case studies and by the voices and experiences of young people themselves. Sympathy and understanding for young people permeate every page and Rachel Burr has managed to write a book which is academically rigorous and reassuring, helpful and truly valuable. It will appeal to parents, practitioners and to young people themselves."
