ETHICAL ISSUES IN YOUTH WORK

ETHICAL ISSUES IN YOUTH WORK Ethical Issues in Youth Work presents a systematic analysis of some of the core ethical dilemmas facing youth workers in their day-to-day practice. Among the topics discussed are: • when to break confidentiality • the ethics of religious conversion • conflicts between cultures • balancing the autonomy and control of young people • maintaining an equilibrium between accountability to funders, employers and young people. This book also examines some of the key challenges facing youth workers in the context of public fears of youth crime, lawlessness, drug use, teenage pregnancy and policies designed to control and contain as well as educate and care for young people. Ethical Issues in Youth Work offers a timely and unique insight into both the perennial dilemmas of youth work practice and some of the more recent challenges faced by youth workers in the light of current public attitudes and government policy towards young people. Sarah Banks is Lecturer in Community and Youth Work at Durham University. She is the author of Ethics and Values in Social Work (1995). PROFESSIONAL ETHICS General editor: Ruth Chadwick Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire Professionalism is a subject of interest to academics, the general public and would-be professional groups. Traditional ideas of professions and professional conduct have been challenged by recent social, political and technological changes. One result has been the development for almost every profession of an ethical code of conduct which attempts to formalise its values and standards. These codes of conduct raise a number of questions about the status of a ‘profession’ and the consequent moral implications for behaviour. This series seeks to examine these questions both critically and constructively. Individual volumes will consider issues relevant to particular professions, including nursing, genetic counselling, journalism, business, the food industry and law. Other volumes will address issues relevant to all professional groups such as the function and value of a code of ethics and the demand of confidentiality. Also available in this series: ETHICAL ISSUES IN JOURNALISM AND THE MEDIA edited by Andrew Belsey and Ruth Chadwick THE GROUND OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Daryl Koehn FOOD ETHICS edited by Ben Mepham THE ETHICS OF BANKRUPTCY Jukka Kilpi ETHICS AND VALUES IN HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT edited by Souzy Dracopoulou GENETIC COUNSELLING edited by Angus Clarke ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING edited by Geoffrey Hunt ETHICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL WORK edited by Richard Hugman and David Smith CURRENT ISSUES IN BUSINESS edited by Peter W.F.Davies ETHICAL ISSUES IN ACCOUNTING edited by Catherine Crowthorpe and John Blake ETHICAL ISSUES IN YOUTH WORK Edited by Sarah Banks London and NewYork First published 1999 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1999 selection and editorial matter Sarah Banks; © 1999 individual contributions; the contributors The right of Sarah Banks and the individual contributors to be identified as the Authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 0–415–16500–8 (hbk) ISBN 0–415–16501–6 (pbk) ISBN 0–203–01899–0 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0–203–20565–0 (Glassbook Format) ... - tailieumienphi.vn