Focused training of child and youth-care workers for promoting social and educational inclusion of youth at risk. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yakhnich, Liat; Grupper, Emmanuel; Romi, Shlomo
• Is Part Of: Child & youth services. Volume 39:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 43
• Page End: 53
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: inclusion -- marginalization -- child and youth care -- professional training -- youth at risk; Child welfare -- Abstracts -- Periodicals; Child health services -- Abstracts -- Periodicals; Youth -- Services for -- Abstracts -- Periodicals; Adolescence -- Abstracts -- Periodicals; 362.705
• DOI: 10.1080/0145935X.2018.1435266
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0145-935X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Engaging marginalized youngsters in the mainstream society poses a great challenge for child and youth-care (CYC) workers. Workers' ability to promote significant inclusion of these adolescents is largely shaped in process of their professional education. Most academic programs for CYC workers define the profession too broadly, and this lack of specification, reflecting the scope and complexity of the field, could have a negative impact on the inclusion-aimed process of professionalization. This opinion note aims at opening a discussion about a new, inclusion-focused perspective on higher professional education of CYC workers. This discussion could suggest a refinement of CYC curricula to reflect specific characteristics of the target populations as well as consider some core concepts of the field of child and youth care.