Russell House Publishing Ltd

Unlike any other book published for the network of professionals and volunteers who work with young people, and students who aspire to join them, the comprehensive book:

• brings together a broad wealth of practice experience
  
• sets it in the fast-changing contexts of young people's needs and policy imperatives
  
• offers clear and rigorous critical analysis, underpinned by contemporary social policy debate
  
• gives practitioners from a wide variety of professional backgrounds a guide to the different models and styles of intervention and delivery that we, as a highly sought-after, but sometimes misunderstood group, are expected to engage with at a time of great expectations mixed with uncertainty
  
• offers guidance to researchers and policy-makers to the breadth and variety of the work that has developed, and continues to evolve, in communities where young people spend their adolescences and early adulthood