Applied Ethics: Educating Professional Child and Youth Workers in Competent Caring Through Self Apprenticeship Training

doi:10.4324/9781315804040-23

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Applied Ethics: Educating Professional Child and Youth Workers in Competent Caring Through Self Apprenticeship Training

ABSTRACT

Applied ethics are introduced as a means of preserving caring as the core of professional child and youth work. The Self Apprenticeship Training approach (Peterson, 1978) is discussed as a methodology for developing competency in applied ethics.