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What exactly is Child and Youth Care work? | James Anglin
What exactly is Child and Youth Care work? | The views of Helen Starke and others
What's in a Name?: Exploring Title Designations in Child and Youth Care in Ireland | McElwee and Garfat
True confessions leading to thoughtful questions | Carol Stuart
What exactly is Child and Youth Care work? | A summary of Small, R.W. and Dodge, L.M. (1988) Roles, skills, and job tasks in professional child care
Self-awareness in the child care worker | Steve Young writing in Child Care Work in Focus
Do-it-yourself definitions of Child and Youth Care work | Brian Gannon on the views of some newcomers to the field
Understanding and reducing power struggles: Transference and counter-transference in treatment relationships | Lorraine E. Fox
Qualities of a Child and Youth Care worker | Ernie Nightingale looks back on 27 years as a Director
On being in charge | Thom Garfat on Child and Youth Care workers taking more responsibility
The Year-2000 model Child and Youth Care Worker User's Manual | Brian Gannon and Merle Allsopp being serious with tongue in cheek
What is a professional? | Two views from David Roush in the youth detention field
How can you recognise a youth-worker? | Mike Baizerman
Developmental Stages of Child and Youth Care Workers: An Interactional Perspective | Thom Garfat
The Juvenile Careworker | David Roush
The child care worker: An ambassador in a land of troubled children | Brian Gannon
Responses to Billy's Mother – I | Thom Garfat on what Child and Youth Care workers do
Responses to Billy's Mother – II | Thom Garfat on what Child and Youth Care workers do
Practice Abuse | Brian Gannon on unsupported front line workers
Being, Acting, Reflecting | Lies Gualtherie van Weezel and Kees Waaldijk
Central Themes in Child and Youth care | Mark Krueger
The child care profession and its responsibilities in the future | Eric Richardson
Letter from a colleague | Dave Damschen
Training for Caring | Patrick Brennan
Child and Youth Care Work: A profession or a calling? | A view from Zambia
Homeless: Neither a profession nor an employer offers shelter or a place to go | Mike Baizerman
Care worker and social worker compare jobs | Rone Gerber and Belinda Slavin
Heroes and Pioneers of Child and Youth Care Work | Larry K. Brendtro
Challenges facing the Child and Youth Care professional | Wilma Hoffman
Adults who work with troubled and difficult young people | F.G. Lennhoff
Why do I do it? | Mark Krueger
Celebrating Child and Youth Care Work | Felicity Coughlan
My Confusion, My Reality | Mark Gamble
Valued Child and Youth Care worker qualities in relationships with young people | Varley Weisman
Today's child, tomorrow's adult | Frieda Francisco-la Grange
Training child care workers: Three essentials | Richard Liberatore
Rights of children are still violated | Sister Stanislaus Kennedy
Stages of Child and Youth Care Worker Development | Jack Phelan
A History of Child and Youth Care | Kathy Beukes and Brian Gannon
An Historical Perspective on Residential Services for Troubled and Troubling Youth in Canada | Grant Charles and Peter Gabor
The Child Care Worker as a Primary Practitioner | F. Herbert Barnes
The Child Care Worker and Occupational Stress | Sharalee Whitehead
The Identification of Stressful Events and Working Conditions by Group Home Personnel | Gale E. Burford
Preparing Agencies and workers for Family Contract Services | Karen Vanderven and Earl N. Stuck
Biographical outline of August Aichhorn | K. R. Eissler
How is Child and Youth Care work unique – and different – from other fields? | Karen VanderVen
True confessions leading to thoughtful questions | Carol Stuart
AS*IF: A Model for Thinking about Child and Youth Care Interventions | Thom Garfat and Terry Newcomen