Young People In Focus

YOUNG ADULTS TODAY - KEY DATA ON 16-25 YEAR OLDS TRANSITIONS, DISADVANTAGES AND CRIME
Kerry Devitt, Lucy Knighton, Kevin Lowe, Young People in Focus 2009

This new publication from Young People in Focus is the first of its kind. It brings together key data on young adults, 16-25, exploring topics such as: health and wellbeing; education and employment; family life; social life and crime, with a specific focus on vulnerable young adults and those within the criminal justice system. This publication is packed with up-to-date facts and figures, and will provide policy makers and practitioners with authoritative information and commentary about young adults today.

KEY MESSAGES INCLUDE:

• Britain's young adults are polarised between a university generation and a NEET generation. While three times as many go to university as did in the 1970s, 1 in 6 are trapped outside of education, employment or training
• As the recession bites more young adults are staying at home with the family and regardless of background are twice as likely to experience unemployment compared to mature adults
• Mental health issues are significant for all young adults, with those from vulnerable backgrounds considerably more likely to suffer from problems
• Young adults commit more crime and are more likely to be victims of crime than any other age group

Ensuring that socially excluded adults are offered the chance to get back on a path to a more successful life is a government priority. A focus on young adults is crucial. But you need to be clear what the issues are - this publication provides the 'hard facts' that policy makers and service providers needl

Naomi Eisenstadt - Director, Social Exclusion Task Force

90pp (ISBN: 978 187 1504 972)

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 Data also covers family life, education and employment, sexual and mental health, and crime.

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

Very interesting to read, many of the issues concerning our lives are brought up in this book should be at the very least talked about in school

Joshua Scott age 17

100pp ISBN 978 1871504 859

ADOLESCENCE, RISK AND RESILIENCE: AGAINST THE ODDS
Wiley, Editors: John Coleman, Ann Hagell

The teenage years, according to popular culture, are a time of experimentation and risk-taking. In this volume, Ann Hagell and John Coleman have gathered together internationally renowned experts to consider a range of disadvantages that may impact on adolescents, and suggest ways to help overcome them. Adolescence, Risk and Resilience is concerned with demonstrating a positive approach to young people and their circumstances.

205pp

DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL LITERACY WITH TEENAGE GIRLS
Building Confidence, Self-esteem and Self-respect
Tina Rae, Lorna Nelson, Lisa Pedersen, Sage Publications 2005

This programme creates an opportunity for teenage girls to be clearer and more positive about their developing identities as young women. Suitable for use in mainstream schools, the 10 session programme improves confidence, self-esteem and self-awareness, with the talk element encouraging students to develop their own problem-solving strategies. Issues covered include: peer pressure, sex, role models, drugs and alcohol, being a parent. Comprehensive facilitator's notes and all resource needs are provided at the back of the book and on the accompanying CD-Rom.


96pp

DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL LITERACY WITH TEENAGE BOYS
Building Confidence, Self Esteem and Self-Awareness
Tina Rae, Lisa Pedersen, Sage Publications 2007

This programme, which has been developed from research, practice and teaching, and has been tried and tested in a pupil referral unit, helps the participants to acknowledge the importance of emotional development and the fact that they have a responsibility to do something about it.

The 12 sessions cover;

• appearance
• girlfriends
• sex, problem-solving and future goals

Comprehensive facilitator's notes and all the resources needed for the programme are provided. All the worksheets are easily printable from the CD Rom that accompanies the book. This is an excellent resource for all those concerned with boys' emotional development.

TEENAGERS AND ATTACHMENT
Helping Adolescents Engage with Life and Learning. Edited by Andrea Perry, Worth Publishing

This highly original work on teenagers and attachment will be essential reading for any professional working with this age group. There has been so much written on the attachment needs of children, but this is the first book of its kind to address the attachment needs of adolescents.

The book will be a vital support, so that instead of fighting with adolescents or withdrawing from them, giving up on them or shutting down their own capacity to feel and think, professionals who work with troubled teenagers will feel empowered to engage and connect. The contributors to this book firmly believe that we can meet and work with them where they are, enable them to slowly build trust in us and themselves and help them to develop hope and optimism for their future. These leading practitioners have a profound belief in the power of authentic relationship to steer adolescents' onto a new, more secure track. Their existing and innovative ideas will offer hope to those on the 'front line' in schools and beyond, who want practical strategies that really work in this most challenging field.

HELPING ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS TO BUILD SELF-ESTEEM
By Deborah Plummer, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2005 [Best Seller]

This workbook is filled with simple, practical and innovative ideas for work with either individuals or with groups. It contains easy-to-use activity sheets which can be photocopied and encourages participants to draw on existing skills and to develop new approaches to building confidence and feelings of self-worth. These exercises are suitable for work with individuals and with groups, and will prove an indispensable aid to building self-esteem in adolescents and adults.

272pp

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

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.

223pp

Smart Thinking
Helping young people develop moral reasoning and thinking skills about offending and anti-social behaviour
Don Rowe & Amanda Dickson, Russell House Publishing

A comprehensive programme, for work with young people between 12 and 18, can be used to help them think critically about offending and anti-social behaviour and their social relationships. Contain material for 10 two hour sessions, Illustrated, photocopiable pages provide interesting and original group activities and exercises.

UNDERSTANDING YOUTH
Perspectives, identities and practice
The Open University and Sage Publication, Edited by Mary Jane Kehily

a rare combination of expert commentary, new research, original theorising and critical reflection

Professor Robert MacDonald, University of Teeside

This book looks at how young people's lives have changed in dramatic ways in recent years, including education, the loss of the traditional youth labour market, and shifts in the nature of family and intimate relationships. It illustrates these changing experiences by drawing on recent research and the insights of young people.

362pp

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

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