Table Of ContentROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
THE ADOLESCENT
Volume 8
SOCIAL WORK WITH
ADOLESCENTS
SOCIAL WORK WITH
ADOLESCENTS
Edited by
RAY JONES
and
COLIN PRITCHARD
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Social work
with adolescents
edited by
Ray Jones
Lecturer in Social Work
University of Bath
Colin Pritchard
Director of Social Work Studies
University of Bath
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First published in 1980
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Social work with adolescents. - (Library of
social work ISSN 0305-4381).
1. Social work with youth
I. Title
II. Jones, Ray III. Pritchard, Colin
IV. Series
362.7 HV1421
ISBN 0 7100 0633 0
Contents
Contributors vii
1 Setting the scene 1
Ray Jones and Colin Pritchard
PART I UNDERSTANDING ADOLESCENCE AND
SOCIAL WORK 9
2 Understanding adolescence 11
Jack Dunham and Ray Jones
3 The relevance of unitary models in social work with
adolescents 50
Florence Rossetti
4 Conflict and competence in inter-professional
communication in the services for adolescents 85
Jack Dunham
PART II SOCIAL WORK WITH ADOLESCENTS 105
5 Counselling the adolescent and his family 107
Audrey Taylor and Colin Pritchard
6 Group work with adolescents 138
Andrew Kerslake
7 Neighbourhood work with adolescents 165
Ray Jones
8 Residential care and adolescents 186
John Burns, William Gregory and Graham
Templeman
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9 Some common problems in working with adolescents 208
Kenneth E. Reid
10 Postscript 220
Ray Jones and Colin Pritchard
Bibliography 225
Index 245
Contributors
RAY JONES is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of
Bath. He has worked in mental health hostels, and as a
social worker and senior social worker in a social services
department. He has undertaken research on adolescents'
perceptions of social work, on intermediate treatment, and
on neighbourhood work, and he continues to work with chil-
dren in trouble. He is author of ?Fun and Therapy: con-
sumer and social worker perceptions of intermediate treat-
ment1 (National Youth Bureau, 1979), and he is co-author
of 'Intermediate Treatment and Social Work' (Heinemann,
1979).
COLIN PRITCHARD is Senior Lecturer, and Director of
Social Work Studies, at the University of Bath. He has
worked in adult and child psychiatry, and was previously
Lecturer in Psychiatric Social Work at the University of
Leeds. He has undertaken research on school phobia, on
the relationships between social workers and teachers, and
on the CND movement. He is involved in in-service train-
ing for social work supervisors and managers, and contin-
ues to work as a counsellor. He is co-author of 'Social
Work: Reform or Revolution?1 (Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1978) and of 'The Protectors - CND Twenty Years On'
(Pergamon, 1980).
JACK DUNHAM is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the
University of Bath. He has previously worked in schools,
child guidance clinics, and with the Bristol Aeroplane Com-
pany. He is involved in both social worker and teacher
training, and is currently researching the stress experien-
ced by 'professional helpers'. He is joint author of 'The
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