Young People with Anti-Social Behaviours
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- ISBN 9781138466364
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Publication Date: 20 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The media today suggests that many young people are becoming involved in anti-social behaviour. But increasing amounts of legislation and ASBOs neither seem to have addressed the real issues nor solved the problem, and may simply add to the frustrations of all those involved.
Kathy Hampson‘s comprehensive guide is based on up-to-date, grass-roots experience of working with young people with anti-social behaviour. Including ready-to-use, photocopiable resources suitable for a wide variety of settings, it examines the background to these highly topical issues, enabling the reader to contextualise and better identify with the problems faced by the young people they work with. The easy-to-reproduce, tried-and-tested exercises:
are for use with individuals or groups
address the issues involved in offending behaviour
can be easily modified to cater for a range of learning styles, abilities and maturity, (and shows how you can identify which exercises suit which young people)
include discussion scenarios, worksheets, cartoons, card games and creative activities
can be used to dissuade young people from getting involved in anti-social behaviour, and to enable them to make better decisions
The book includes an appraisal of current research on the issues surrounding anti-social behaviour and, in particular, risk factors that may be involvedbehind the scenes in young people‘s lives. A section on working with parents helps them to support their children, improve their parenting skills and to know where, and how, to ask for help.
This is an essential resource offering constructive, practical solutions to anti-social behaviour in young people between the ages of 10 and 18. It will be invaluable for those working professionally or voluntarily in schools, with youth groups, youth offending teams, youth inclusion projects, f
