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Dilemmas of Youth Work: Balancing the Professional and Personal
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Walker, Kathrin C.; Larson, Reed W – New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
In this study, the authors tried to understand the types of dilemmas that adult leaders of youth programs encounter in their daily work with young people. The dilemmas come from an in-depth longitudinal study of ongoing experiences in twelve high-quality urban and rural programs for high school-aged youth. Transcripts from 125 interviews with the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Adolescent Development, Program Attitudes, Performance Factors