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Mental State Exam for youth workers: Speech and language.

Over the past few weeks we have been developing an understanding of the components of a mental state exam. So far we ...
Young people in a group

sometimes even seasoned youth worker’s need to re-learn a lesson.

Today I was forced to re-learn a lesson I had learnt as a young youth worker. I was cocky. I thought I had it all in ...

I’m a Slut…No one will love me!!!

Hard conversations are bread and butter for the average youth worker. I always love walking into a new youth work env...

Develop your own professional development plan.

Between the staff at Ultimate Youth Worker we have over fifty different jobs throughout the breadth of youth service ...

Observe the S in DISC for youth worker’s

Over the past few weeks we have been looking at the DISC behavioural profile and its use for youth worker’s in ...
Critical reflection

youth work peer consultation: reflective practice revisited

Reflective practice with your peers We have all had those moments in our youth work career. We are stuck and we don’t...

Youth Justice: Restoration or Retribution?

We asked our followers recently what they would like us to talk about on the blog and one topic stood out as a major ...

Accountability

As I said a few weeks back the team at Ultimate Youth Worker are currently developing our “Model of Effective Y...

Reflective practice: Why we should journal.

The team at Ultimate Youth Worker are currently developing our “Model of Effective Youth Work Practice” w...
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