Exploring the Multifaceted Practice of Youth Work

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Youth work is a polyvalent and multifaceted practice. It takes place in a wide range of settings, it varies from unstructured activities to fairly structured programs, it reaches a large diversity of young people, touches a lot of different themes and is on the interface with many other disciplines and practices (Coussée, 2009). It is happening across countries and communities, in all its forms, in different settings and contexts and there is no doubt that any attempt to study the history of youth work always presents a vexing challenge that cannot be accurately described. Although while analyzing the history of Youth Work in Greece, you can easily understand that its role was always important and of great social value, nowadays it is kind …show more content…

According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority the basic salary for newcomers in the labor market has been set by law at much lower than the existing basic salary and moreover the extremely high youth unemployment has set Greece in the position of the countries with the highest rates in the world (48% in March 2012, 62.9% in May 2013, 51,30% in November 2014, 50.10% in December 2015 and 45,70% in November 2016). Moreover, the 49.67% of 925 young people participating in a national research say that they are very stressed over their economic future and the 32.7% of them say that they are very stressed over their finance which impacts their personal and social life (Stergiou & Tsakiridou, 2012), (World Health Organization, 2011), (Mathers & Schofield, 1998). Most of the students believe that the economic crisis has influenced their ambitions and has created stress on their vocational settlement in a country that lacks in strategic plan to support vulnerable youth (Stergiou & Tsakiridou,

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