Working with Young Women

Vanessa Rogers is a qualified teacher and renowned youth worker with over ten years' experience both at practitioner and management levels. Prior to becoming a nationally acclaimed youth work consultant, Vanessa managed a wide range of services for young people including a large youth centre and targeted detached projects in Hertfordshire, UK. Vanessa's website can be found at www.vanessarogers.co.uk.

• Acknowledgements/Contributors. Introduction. 1. Setting up a young women's group. 2. Getting started. 3. Self-esteem and body image. 4. Healthy lifestyles. 5. Positive relationships. 6. Gender and stereotypes. 7. Endings. Useful websites.

This book is likely to be helpful to parents as well as professionals and educationalists. Its main strength is the fact that it uses a lot of examples and gives clear instructions about how to manage the groups, and the material can be adapted for individual sessions too. Many parents and teachers might find the ways in which it addresses certain topics particularly helpful, such as those about relationships, when tackling such issues in classrooms or in conversations with children younger than 13 years... overall, this book is a very enjoyable and worthwhile read!