Intellectual Output 4 (Youth Work Reader)

Book is a form of anthology that has been prepared by authors from partners’ institutions. It summaries contemporary issues on youth from a interdisciplinary perspective related to social welfare policy and implementation of social work practice. Book is prepared as a theoretical comments and basis for reflection useful during work on SP YOUNG course module themes and leads to deper understanding EU youth policy, current youth problems, youth work aims and methods. First part (Youth in Societies – Structural Condition and Challenges in Welfare Measures) is devoted to anthropological issues, “invisible youth” in contemporary societies plus local activities perceived as a tool in social prevention. Second part (Toward Resistant Adolescence and Adulthood) is a collection of text describing values perception, drug use problem, unaccompanied minors, youth education in multi-cultural school context, youth at risk plus Positive Youth Development concept overview.