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The issue of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is firmly in the
public spotlight internationally and in the UK, but just how well
is it understood? To date, many CSE-related services have been
developed in reaction to high profile cases rather than being
designed more strategically. This much-needed book breaks new
ground by considering how psychosocial, feminist and
geo-environmental theories, amongst others, can improve practice
understanding and interventions. Edited by one of the leading
scholars in the field, this is an essential text for students and
those planning strategic interventions and practice activities in
social, youth and therapeutic work with young people, as it
supports understanding of how CSE arises and how to challenge the
nature of the abuse.
How do you listen effectively when you are already late for a
meeting? How do you respond to a girl who is so angry that she's
threatening to hit someone? Or to a boy who feels like giving up
altogether? How do you listen, not only to students, but also to
parents and to colleagues? Whatever your role in school, listening
will be at the heart of what you do. Your school will be measured,
in part, by the quality of its daily relationships and those
relationships will depend on how confidently people are able to
listen to each other. This book answers all the difficult questions
about how to listen, what to say, confidentiality and more. Helping
with particular issues such as bullying, relationship difficulties,
depression and self-harm is also covered. With over 35 years'
experience in a variety of school roles, Nick Luxmoore offers
practical, realistic answers, advice and guidance. This book will
be essential reading for teachers and non-teachers alike.
The issue of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) is firmly in the
public spotlight internationally and in the UK, but just how well
is it understood? To date, many CSE-related services have been
developed in reaction to high profile cases rather than being
designed more strategically. This much-needed book breaks new
ground by considering how psychosocial, feminist and
geo-environmental theories, amongst others, can improve practice
understanding and interventions. Edited by one of the leading
scholars in the field, this is an essential text for students and
those planning strategic interventions and practice activities in
social, youth and therapeutic work with young people, as it
supports understanding of how CSE arises and how to challenge the
nature of the abuse.
What is it like to work as a counsellor in schools? What
relationship might a counsellor have with staff? How can a
counsellor become a positive, integral part of school life? In this
book, Nick Luxmoore shows how school counsellors can make a
positive difference to the whole life of the school. Rather than
being a service hidden behind closed doors, he shows how to take a
whole-school approach to counselling, making it a normal part of
school life. The book demonstrates how staff as well as students
can benefit from counselling, and how professional boundaries and
relationships can be maintained. Key therapeutic aims and how to
develop the service are also covered. Drawing on over 26 years'
experience as a school counsellor, Luxmoore combines vivid case
material with psychotherapeutic theory to show counsellors how to
provide an excellent service and make a positive contribution to
the school. The book will be essential reading for school
counsellors, headteachers, teachers, and anyone interested in
effective counselling in schools.
A taboo subject in today's society, death is something that we do
not like to talk about and especially do not like young people
talking about. Yet, without opportunities to talk, young people's
anxieties about death can manifest themselves in all sorts of
self-destructive and socially-destructive ways. In this book, Nick
Luxmoore explores the problems that arise when death is not openly
discussed with young people and offers invaluable advice about how
best to allay concerns without having to pretend that there are
easy answers. He covers all of the key issues from the physicality
of death to the fear of not existing to the way young people's
morality develops and he provides expert insight into the impact
these subjects have on young people's behaviour. This book presents
a wealth of information for professionals, parents and others
working with young people, providing the skills needed to ask young
people the difficult question, Do you think much about death? and
to support them as they begin to find their answer.
We use the word all the time, but what exactly is self-esteem, and
how do young people develop it? Feeling Like Crap explores how a
young person's self is constructed, and what might really help that
self to feel more valued and confident. Through accounts of his
individual and group work with young people, Nick Luxmoore
demonstrates how listening to, engaging with and being respectful
of young people can provide the support they need to help them
repair their sense of self and offer them new possibilities and
directions in life. When Grace was three, her parents split up and
she went to live with her father while her sister stayed with their
mother. Allie has slipped behind with her school work since falling
out with her best friend, and any positive feelings about himself
that Conor may have dared to develop have been beaten out of him by
his father. This compassionate and thought-provoking book will be
an invaluable resource for counsellors, teachers, youth workers,
and anyone else working to help young people with self-esteem
issues.
This book provides ways to support and counsel young people
struggling to adapt and live with the constant possibility of
things breaking down, of normal life being overtaken by chaos.
Covering many different types of 'everyday chaos' including
anxiety, bullying, mental health, trauma, anger and loss, this book
is an incredibly useful guide for anyone working with young people
at a time when these issues are more prevalent than ever. It was
inspired by the author's daughter's accidental death aged 27.
Written in a warm and down-to-earth tone, the chapters use a
variety of case studies to lead through examples on a range of
problems young people are facing.
Counsellors working with young people often find it can feel like
messy, complex work. What helps when counsellors themselves are
stuck? This book recalls those moments when supervision sessions
have been crucial to puzzling out the complexities of counselling
young people. The assorted supervision stories in this book explore
the important issues that counsellors working with young people
face, and look at how supervision can help them overcome these
issues. Thoughtful and engaging, each story is a snapshot from a
counsellor's career. They address questions such as 'What gets
talked about?', 'What issues recur with young people and how are
they addressed in supervision?' and 'What helps counsellors to move
on when they're stuck?' As a veteran counsellor and supervisor with
40 years' experience, Nick Luxmoore vividly recounts moments of
highs and lows, of uncertainties and of breakthroughs, and of the
unique dilemmas experienced by counsellors and supervisors working
with young people.
Ellis's mother is angry because he's been watching porn. Sheron
says she hates her body. Mitchell's upset because Jack doesn't want
to have sex with him... Sex affects everything. It may not be the
single most important thing in a young person's life, but it's
always important and a crucial means by which young people try to
understand themselves, whether they're in sexual relationships, on
the brink of sexual relationships or watching from afar. Yet sex
and sexuality are subjects that many adults (including parents,
counsellors, teachers and other professionals) are wary of talking
about with young people. This book is about helping young people
feel less anxious about sex and sexuality. It's also about helping
professionals feel more confident. Weaving case material with
theory and discussion, Nick Luxmoore describes vividly the dilemmas
faced by so many young people and suggests ways of supporting them
effectively at such a crucial and sensitive time in their lives.
Again and again, young people return to the question, "Am I the
same as other people or am I different?" It's a difficult question
to answer. Everyone knows that they're the same as other people in
lots of ways yet they suspect that they might also be different. Or
they want to be different... Or they accuse other people of being
different... Or they get beaten up for being different... This book
is about young people trying to find answers, or at least trying to
live more comfortably with the question. Using dozens of
recognisable vignettes, Luxmoore explores young people's anxieties
about ordinariness and extraordinariness, anxieties that affect
everything: their behaviour, choices, relationships, happiness. He
describes ways of working supportively and imaginatively with young
people so that they can begin to find a better balance, enjoying
their lives and achieving all sorts of things without losing sight
of the fact that - underneath everything and like everyone else -
they're ordinary, and there's nothing wrong with that. This
original and thought-provoking book will enable professionals in
counselling, teaching, youth work and youth justice to support
young people struggling with these anxieties and the eternal
question, "Am I normal?"
Understanding the roots of anger and encouraging appropriate and
acceptable ways of expressing this are essential skills for anyone
working with young people. Working with Anger and Young People
warns against 'quick fix' solutions to dealing with anger, and
draws on the author's experiences of youth counselling and training
workshops to propose helpful interventions for addressing anger
effectively and moving on from it. From attachment anxieties and
feelings of powerlessness, to frustration at difficult family
relations, Nick Luxmoore considers the common reasons for young
people's anger during this difficult stage of their development.
Through accounts of his work with a range of young people, he
offers tried-and-tested exercises and talking points to help work
through common counterproductive responses to anger such as
antisocial behaviour and physical or verbal violence. Crucially, he
also recognises the needs of those working with these young people
with anger problems and provides advice on working safely,
maintaining control and achieving job satisfaction. This sensitive,
accessible book will be an informative and engaging resource for
anyone working with young people with anger issues.
Effective work with young people requires empathy and
understanding. This accessible book captures the reality of young
people's experiences, their relationships and the things that are
important to them. Using in-depth examples from his many years'
experience as a teacher, youth worker and psychotherapist, Nick
Luxmoore outlines a creative approach that will enable
professionals to respond appropriately to the complex needs and
sometimes demanding behaviour of young people. Luxmoore describes
the dynamics of young people's relationships, offering original
insights into * the ways in which young people approach intimacy
and manage secrecy and privacy * their relationships with siblings,
friends and adults * their anxieties about themselves and their
identity * how they interact with strangers and strange situations.
This sensitive, accessible and practical book will enable
professionals in teaching, counselling and youth work to listen to
young people, to understand their needs and to support them
effectively.
This is a series of surprising and candid conversations held
between veteran counsellor Nick Luxmoore and professionals working
with young people. Based entirely on stories from the author's
experience of supervising frontline professionals, it looks at how
to approach young people, the stumbling blocks faced on both sides,
and offers invaluable guidance to anyone working with teenagers.
Luxmoore posits ways forward for practitioners which are adaptive
and allow them to respond personally, practically and
theoretically. From suicide to disordered eating, watching
pornography to love in therapeutic relationships, Nick Luxmoore
covers a range of problems and phenomena encountered by
counsellors, teachers, school social workers and youth workers. One
chapter sees a counsellor struggling for questions to ask a boy
whose father abandoned his family only to return two years later,
another a teacher finding it impossible to know how to speak to a
fourteen-year-old with an inoperable brain tumour. Recounted in a
style that motivates, engages and inspires, The Art of Working with
Anxious, Antagonistic Adolescents allows professionals to gain a
better understanding of their capacity, particularly
developmentally and pastorally, and not reach for easy answers or a
quick fix. These are lessons in the art of working with today's
teenagers.
This book is about boyfriends and girlfriends - getting them,
keeping them and moving on from them. Young people put enormous
energy into these processes: they worry, they hope, they conspire
and they cry because, in a sense, having a boyfriend or girlfriend
is about much more than just having a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Using dozens of recognisable vignettes, Luxmoore movingly describes
his work with young people. In particular, he explores the dramatic
conflict between young people's loving and hating as they move from
the intimacy of relationships with parents to relationships with
boyfriends and girlfriends, frantically negotiating sex and
sexuality, the meaning of love, faithfulness and unfaithfulness and
many other issues vital to the adults these young people will
become. The book will be essential reading for professionals and
parents struggling with the ferocity of young people's feelings
where 'I love you!' and 'I hate you!' are never far apart.
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