Arbeiten mit gefährdeten Jugendlichen

Diana Whitmore

Diana Whitmore

Keywords: Youth work, selfrespect, affiliation, potentiality, life sense

Abstract

A mentoring-programm for hard traumatised young people will be reported. The programm very early will help teens on the edge of the society to develop competence like ability to survive, also knowledge and faith in itself, so that they can feel accompanying for company. The youngsters take over responsibility by the care from undeprivileged cradle children. They receive accompanying one-to-one conversations and lessons in a class. With the help of a case study of a 15-year-old girl the work becomes clear.

Author Biography

Diana Whitmore

graduated from the University of Surrey with MAEd (Master of Education). She is the Executive Chair and Founding Director of Teens and Toddlers in the UK, a charity, a mentoring programme set up in 2001 for socially excluded young people who are socially reintegrated through a range of interventions, providing them with employment and training. The project also aims to reduce the number of teenage pregnancies. Lady Diana Whitmore is also founder, president and co-chair of Psychosynthesis & Education Trust and has been practicing psychosynthesis for 35 years. She is an accredited member of the Council of the UK Council for Psychotherapists and a UK association of accredited counsellors and therapists. She is the author of two books: "Psychosynthesis Counselling in Action" and "Psychosynthesis in Education: A Guide to the Joy of Learning. Diana recommended an intervention paper to the Cabinet Office's Behavioural Insight Team in 2009 and presented it at the 'Behavioural Change in Public Health' conference in February 2012. She is also a member of Findhorn's Board of Trustees. Contact: dwhitmore@teensandtoddlers.org.uk

Working with young people at risk

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Author Biography