Let's Rework Our Approach with "Angry Young People". Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McFerran, Katrina Skewes
• Is Part Of: Social work with groups. Volume 40:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 183
• Page End: 186
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Evidence-based -- music therapy -- mental illness -- violence -- trauma; Social group work -- Periodicals; 361.405
• DOI: 10.1080/01609513.2016.1219837
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0160-9513

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This commentary by Social Work with Groups Editorial Advisory Board member Dr. Katrina Skewes McFerran is reprinted here with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution. Dr. McFerran, a music therapist, offers a reflection in the aftermath of a mass murder and suicide by a young person in Munich, Germany in July 2016. She states that "many youth services rely on government funding that demands "evidence" in order to justify spending from limited budgets." She goes on to ask, "How do you prove that by establishing a meaningful connection with an angry young man you have stopped a mass shooting?"