@inbook{715ab23c48e74ab8a2b9c6fe4766a748,
title = "Youth work: the professionalism dilemma",
abstract = "This chapter discusses the professionalism behind youth work. Youth work is at the same time very old practice and a very new one. While its beginnings stretch back to the child-saver movements of the last century (Ewen 1983), youth work in Australia has really only moved beyond a volunteer movement with a principal interest in young people{\textquoteright}s moral (and sometimes physical) hygiene in the last twenty five years.",
keywords = "youth studies, youth issues, youth work, professionalism",
author = "H. Sercombe and Rob White",
note = "Reprint of an article originally published in Youth Studies Australia 2007, 26(2), 11-19.",
year = "2009",
month = oct,
language = "English",
isbn = "978 1 875236 61 9",
volume = "1",
series = "Doing youth work in Australia",
publisher = "Australian clearinghouse for youth studies",
booktitle = "Concepts and methods of youth work",
}