Connecting with Young People in Trouble : Risk, Relationships and Lived Experience.

Intro -- Publisher's note -- Acknowledgments -- About the author -- Foreword -- The Who, the Why and the Context -- My own journey -- Fresh insights as a professional -- It Takes a Village to Raise a Child -- Relational poverty -- Offending, relationships and identity -- Attachment, authenticity and other crossovers -- Some concluding comments -- Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover -- Implicit bias -- Identity, condemnation and redemption -- Labels, relationships, inequality -- Risk Relational Paradox -- Summary -- A Unique Perspective of Relational Justice -- How do practitioners build relationships? -- Facilitating change -- Getting the balance right -- The system itself -- Further thoughts on best practice -- Challenges on multiple levels -- Avoiding the cycle of abuse -- The Risk Switch -- More on child exploitation -- The need for attachment and relationships -- Ineffective penal consequences -- The 'Risk Switch' in the form of a diagram -- Joint Enterprise -- Life experience -- Lived experience -- Living experience -- Lived experience professionals -- Three interviews -- Analysis -- Postscript -- Youth Crime and Trauma -- The ACE studies -- Toxic stress and exposure to other adversities -- The impact of ACEs -- Parental incarceration and exposure to criminality -- Potentially harmful youth justice processes -- ACEs and social inequality -- Relationships: The Key Components -- Presence, attunement, resonance and trust -- Replacing 'resonance' with 'connection' -- Connection -- Trust -- Finally a Desistance PACT -- References and Bibliography -- Index -- _Hlk39147168 -- _Hlk52177409 -- _Hlk49496077 -- _Hlk45898436 -- _Hlk47445742 -- _Hlk46772857 -- _Hlk46126024 -- _Hlk50533654 -- _Hlk46138845 -- _Hlk46136389 -- _Hlk52273124 -- _Hlk46911476 -- Blank Page.

A powerful critique of existing youth services which spans lived experience, theory and practice. Contains first-hand accounts of relational change and sees youth crime via a refreshing new lens.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.