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Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness
Nick Luxmoore
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Description for Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JKSN2; JMC; JNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
Again and again, young people return to the question, "Am I the same as other people or am I different?" It's a difficult question to answer. Everyone knows that they're the same as other people in lots of ways yet they suspect that they might also be different. Or they want to be different... Or they accuse other people of being different... Or they get beaten up for being different...
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Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849051859
SKU
V9781849051859
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Ref
99-10
About Nick Luxmoore
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.
Reviews for Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness
Overall, this text promotes considerations of professional practice on a number of levels and gently balances the professional and the personal on the same plane. As it is based around the school context it offers these considerations from a context and system well known to Educational Psychologists, thereby making this text, both a reflective and engaging read.
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