Young People In Focus

Made to Measure - Bespoke service for young adults: Examples of promising practice

Kerry Devitt and Kevin Lowe, YPF

This publication shows why young people aged 18-25 need tailored services. It showcases six innovative projects/services set up specifically to support young adults with complex needs. The work covers rehabilitation from prison; mental health support; education, training and employment; young carers; and drug use. It also includes a directory of over 50 organisations focusing on this age group. Practical tips from practitioners and young adults show what works best.

'Young adults aged 16 - 25 years are a distinct group within society but this is rarely recognised in the systems established by service delivery agencies, commissioners and policy developers… This publication is essential in highlighting guidance and best practice.'

Rob Smith, Chief Executive, YSS

ISBN 978-0-9561453 1

KEY DATA ON ADOLESCENCE 2009 (7th edition)John Coleman and Fiona Brooks Young People in Focus 2009

"This book is recognised as the most authoritative guide to young people today"
Youth worker, North London

The 7th Edition of this popular publication is a collaboration between the Young People in Focus and the Association for Young People's Health (AYPH). There is a strong emphasis on health, with two chapters devoted to physical health.

KEY MESSAGES INCLUDE

- 1.8 million children and young people in the UK live in workless households

-The numbers not in education, employment or training (NEETs) remain stubbornly high

- Healthy eating is on the increase among English pupils

- The significance of wider support networks

- Alcohol consumption among the young has doubled since 1990

- Teenage pregnancy rates continue to fall

100pp

ISBN 978 1871504 859

A Handbook of Children and Young People's Participation: Perspectives from theory and practice

Barry Percy - Smith & Nigel Thomas

The book introduces key concepts and debates, and presents a rich collection of accounts of the diverse ways in which children's participation is understood and enacted around the world, interspersed with reflective commentaries from adults and young people. It concludes with a number of substantial theoretical
contributions that aim to take forward our understanding of children's participation.

The emphasis throughout the text is on learning from the complexity of children's participation in practice to improve our theoretical understanding, and on using those theoretical insights to challenge practice, with the aim of realising children's rights and citizenship more fully

ISBN 978 0 415 468527

The Nature of Adolescence
4th Edition, John Coleman, Routledge

Provides an introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. Updated and rewritten, this edition includes material on new topics such as the development of the adolescent brain; sleep patterns in adolescence; parenting programmes for parents of teenagers; health; including sport and exercise; nutrition and obesity, and mental health; education and schooling; young people's use of digital technologies; new approaches to resilience and coping. It places a particular emphasis on a positive view on adolescence.

Wired Youth The Social World of Adolescence in the Information Age.

Gustavo S. Mesch, Ilan Talmud

This book presents an up-to-date review of the literature on youth sociability, relationship formation, and online communication, examining the way young people use the internet to construct or maintain their inter-personal relationships. The book systematically explores the various effects of internet access and use on adolescents' involvement in social, leisure and extracurricular activities,, evaluating the arguments that suggest the internet is displacing other forms of social ties.


ISBN 978-0-415-45994

How to Help Children and Young People with Complex Behavioural Difficulties
A Guide for Practitioners Working in Educational Settings

Ted Cole and Barabara Knowles, Jessica Kinglsey Publishers

The book begins by expanding the reader's general understanding of BESD in children. The authors examine the underlying causes, explore what can be learned from past experience, and discuss research -based theory. They then offer a range of interventions and therapies for use in and out of school, and encourage practitioners to develop skills such as engaging with parents, identifying special educational needs and setting constructive boundaries.

Navigating Teenage Depression
A guide for parents and professionals

Gordon Parker and Kerrie Eyers, Guildford Press

In this book the authors explain how to systematically identify different mood disorders, contributing factors and explain when clinical treatment is required and outline treatment options. Examples of the contents; what depression feels like; young people describe its effects, getting to assessment, maintaining good mental health and assessing the effectiveness of antidepressants in teens.

CYBER BULLYING
Activities to help children and teens to stay safe in a texting, twittering, social networking world

Vanessa Rogers, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

This approachable book is packed with advice, games and activities for groups and individuals to help young people understand what cyber bullying is, how they should behave online and how they can stay safe. The activities range from quizzes and competitions to storyboard games and art activities, and cover issues such as how easily personal information can be

SUPPORTING PARENTS OF TEENAGERS
A handbook for professionals
Edited by John Coleman and Debi Roker, Jessica Kingsley 2001

SUMMER SALE: NOW £13.29 WAS £18.99

An essential handbook for those wanting to support parent's of teenagers. This handbook provides a review of current policy developments, from crime and disorder legislation to youth offending teams. It addresses the practical issues of how to assess and provide support for parents, including parenting orders, the use of the parent advisor model, setting up a parenting teenagers group, involving fathers as well as mothers of teenagers and working with ethnic minorities.

WORKING WITH BLACK YOUNG PEOPLE
Edited by Momodou Sallah and Carlton Howson

SUMMER SALE: NOW £17.47 WAS £24.95

This book offers insights into issues that confront Black young people. It charts the shifts in British social policy, recruitment, restriction, repatriation and multiculturalism.

Bringing together different dimensions and perspectives, this book seeks to challenge both the accepted status quo of Black young people’s negative overrepresentation in most aspects of life-including education, criminal justice, housing and health.