Role/Significance of the Relational Approach in Child and Youth Care


In The Child and Youth Care Workers: Who Needs Them, Thomas Linton and Michael Forster write that "the child and youth care workers operate more or less completely within the 'lifespan' of the young person... As a result, the relationship of child to child care worker, more than the relationship to any other helping professional, is characterized by immediacy, intensity, and intimacy; it is a constant interchange of selves at very close quarters over very long periods of time" (2003). Although professionalism is important to this field, Linton and Forster assert that this work involves more than professionalism, it also involves heart.
















Fundamental 
to Child and Youth Care Work 
is building relationships 

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This website was created in 2011 by Jean Braun and Kristy Jackson
 students in the Child and Youth Care (CYC) stream of the Human Services Diploma program 
as a project for the "Professionalism in Child and Youth Care" course 
at Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC, Canada.