Nick Luxmoore

Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about young people trying to find answers, or at least trying to live more comfortably with the question. Using dozens of recognisable vignettes, Luxmoore explores young people's anxieties about ordinariness and extraordinariness, anxieties that affect everything: their behaviour, choices, relationships, happiness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9781849051859
• ISBN-10: 1849051852
• Artikelnr.: 31754010

Autorenporträt

Nick Luxmoore was a school counsellor, trainer, teacher, youth worker and UKCP registered Psychodrama psychotherapist. He had over 35 years' experience of work with young people and with the professionals who support them. He worked as the Counsellor at King Alfred's Academy, Wantage, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. A Story about difference. 3. Otherness. 4. Trying to be
interesting. 5. Ordinariness and extraordinariness. 6. Special. 7. A
brittle belief. 8. Ordinary death and ordinary sex. 9. The road not taken.
10. What if and what is. 11. A promised land. 12. Disillusioning. 13. Back
to the garden. 14. Ordinary parents, ordinary professionals. 15. Afterword.