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Direct linkAnderson-Nathe, Ben – Child & Youth Services, 2008
Phenomenological research investigates the meaning of lived experiences for participants, as well as the implications of those experiences. This chapter presents brief biographical sketches of 12 youth workers who participated in a phenomenological investigation of the experience of self in moments of not-knowing what to do. Each participant's…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Youth Programs, Adults, Caseworker Approach
Anderson-Nathe, Ben – Child & Youth Services, 2008
One of the few truly reassuring features of not-knowing among youth workers is the realization that not-knowing cannot last forever. Eventually, some feature of the situation shifts, and youth workers move back into the capacity for action. This chapter describes the last of five themes associated with youth workers' experiences of not knowing…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Adults, Caseworker Approach, Social Work
Anderson-Nathe, Ben – Child & Youth Services, 2008
Phenomenology offers a unique and useful approach to understanding how people experience events or phenomena. The method is particularly instructive in exploring how youth workers experience and make sense of moments of not-knowing in the context of their professional relationships with young people. This chapter provides an introduction to…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Adults, Caseworker Approach, Social Work
Gharabaghi, Kiaras – Child & Youth Services, 2008
The implications of the practitioner's personal values are explored in relation to the professional issues of child and youth care practice. Values are inevitably a component of decision-making and therefore are integrally connected to ethics in the field. The prevalence of subjectivity over objectivity is emphasized in relation to in-the-moment…
Descriptors: Values, Ethics, Youth Programs, Caseworker Approach
Anderson-Nathe, Ben – Child & Youth Services, 2008
When describing how they experience moments of not-knowing, youth workers often talk about a sense of paralysis, as though their uncertainty becomes physically constraining. This chapter describes the first of five themes associated with youth workers' experiences of not knowing what to do: the paralysis of stuckness. In addition to describing and…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Adults, Caseworker Approach, Social Work
Anderson-Nathe, Ben – Child & Youth Services, 2008
Among youth workers who experience moments of not-knowing what to do, many often describe their thoughts and reactions to the phenomenon in vocational and existential terms. They ask what right they have to work in the helping professions if they find themselves simply unable to be helpful. In many cases, the vocational crises following…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Hermeneutics, Youth Programs, Caseworker Approach
