ABSTRACT

The central aim of this book is to help practitioners structure their helping relationships with young people. As noted earlier, professional helping can be delivered through a wide range of interventions, not just via one-to-one interviews, which may be the most common, but are not the only form of help available to young people. Helping activities, considered in the previous chapter, contribute to the helping process and can involve a variety of methods. Methods could be described as interventions, and this chapter considers helping interventions alongside the role of the youth support worker/ professional helper in the helping context. As in previous chapters, examples and exercises are included to relate the concepts discussed to practice.