Table of Contents

• With Children and Youth: Emerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care, edited by Kiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, and Mark Krueger
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Kiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, and Mark Krueger
• Part 1
• Chapter 1 The Purpose of Youth Work Kiaras Gharabaghi
• Chapter 2 Becoming the Common Hans A. Skott-Myhre
• Chapter 3 Stop Breaking People into Bits: A Plea for a Peopled Youth Work Doug Magnuson
• Chapter 4 Developing the Profession from Adolescence into Adulthood: Generativity versus Stagnation Carol Stuart
• Part 2
• Chapter 5 Thinking through a Relational and Developmental Lens Jack Phelan
• Chapter 6 Crafting and Uncrafting Relationships in Child and Youth Care: Human-More-Than-Human Encounters Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
• Chapter 7 Post-Growth Possibilities for Child and Youth Care Janet Newbury
• Chapter 8 Insider/Outsider: Challenge and Opportunity in Teaching ""The Profession That Never Was"" in the United States Ben Anderson-Nathe
• Part 3
• Chapter 9 Reading Camus's The First Man Mark Krueger
• Chapter 10 Be Gone, Dull Care Gerry Fewster, with Cedrick of Toxteth
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Kiaras Gharabaghi is an associate professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Ryerson University and co-editor of the journal Child & Youth services. A practitioner for more than twenty years, he researches in the areas of residential care, children's mental health, education and social pedagogy, policy and regulatory frameworks for youth services, and system collaboration and organizational change.

Hans A. Skott-Myhre is an associate professor in the Child and Youth Studies Department at Brock University. He spent twenty-five years as a youth worker and family therapist working primarily with runaway and homeless youth before entering academia. Research interests include radical and political approaches to youth-adult relations, subcultures, critical disability studies and anti-psychiatry, post-capitalist subjectivity, post-Marxist politics, undoing whiteness, and political readings of popular culture.

Mark Krueger was professor and founder of the Youth Work Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught and studied youth work. He wrote several articles and twelve books about the field, and consulted and spoke at numerous conferences and agencies in the United States, Canada, and Europe.