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Article: From personal to structural: towards critical change in youth work practice.(Peer Reviewed)
- Article from:
- Youth Studies Australia
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Victor Wong, from Hong Kong Baptist University, argues that if the welfare and interests of youth are to be promoted, youth workers need to critically review their ideology and practice, and maintain and advocate youth work that is orientated towards the "structural". With the support of an intensive literature review and discussion, Dr Wong compares and contrasts the traditional and structural youth work models in relation to their different conceptualisations of youth, social context, the theoretical underpinnings of practice, and the roles of youth workers.
Whether the role and tasks of social workers should be orientated to the personal or the structural has ...