Reviews : A Measure of Diversion: Case Studies in Intermediate Treatment ROBERT ADAMS, SIMON ALLARD, JOHN BALDWIN, JIM THOMAS National Youth Bureau, 1981; £6.95; pb; pp 347
| Date | 01 September 1982 |
| Published date | 01 September 1982 |
| Author | Nigel Stone |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900315 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
112
Unemployment
JEREMY
SEABROOK
Quartet
Books
1982;
£8.95;
hb;
pp
224
A
stimulating
book
which
tries
to
pre-
sent
answers
to
the
vital
question
of
what
happens
to
people
in
a
society
based
on
the
necessity
to
work
when
work
ceases
to
be
available.
While
uncom-
promisingly
identifying
with
the
working
class
movement,
the
ideological
stance
is
illuminated
by
action
research
whereby
the
author
lived
with
different
families
in
areas
hard
hit
by
unemployment.
If
you
want
to
take the
problems
and
implications
of
unemployment
seriously
then
read
this
book.
Be
prepared
to
have
your
presuppositions
and
prejudices
challenged-the
historical
process
is
important
to
understand.
The
results
of
the
current
employment
crisis
may
be
more
fundamentally
damaging
than
you
think.
TIM
POWELL
Oxford
Day
Centre
Burnout:
Stages
of
Disillusionment
in
the
Helping
Professions
JERRY
EDELWICH,
MSW,
WITH
ARCHIE
BRODSKY
Human
Science
Press,
USA,
1980;
£10.95;
pp
255
Edelwich’s
book
identifies
a
five-stage
cycle
of
staff
burnout
that
consists
of
enthusiasm,
stagnation,
frustration,
apathy
and
intervention.
One
of
the
book’s
prin-
cipal
merits
is
that
by
identifying
the
special
characteristics
of
a
’burnout
cycle’
it
gives
credence
and
support
to
those
practitioners
who
have
at
times
floundered
in
their
work
without
fully
understanding
either
the
experience
itself
or
its
possible
professional
and
personal
consequences.
However,
practitioners
searching
for
easy
solutions
to
the
burnout
problem
will
not
find
much
comfort
from
a
book
with
only
one
chapter
devoted
to
’prob-
lem
solving
on
and
off
the
job’.
In
the
chapter
called ’The
Givens
of
the
System’,
the
author
states
the
parameters
within
which
professionals
must
learn
to
work,
which
includes
the
wider
political
system
and
its
seeming
unresponsiveness
to
the
needs
of
the
client,
or
the
individual
work
and
of
society-the
very
needs
it
has
been
set
up
to
serve.
However,
by
stating
both
that
those
professionals
concerned
must
learn
to
work
within
the
given
parameters
and
also
by
focusing
on
individual
rather
than
organisational
or
structural
solutions
to
the
professional
problems,
the
authors
imply
an
acceptance
of
an
operational
bureaucratic
and
political
status
quo.
Despite
this
criticism
this
is
an
important
book
which
is
essential
reading
for
all
those
practitioners,
training
departments
and
policy
makers
working
in
the
helping
professions.
R.
A.
BROAD
Probation
Officer,
Nottingham
A
Measure
of
Diversion:
Case
Studies
in
Intermediate
Treatment
ROBERT
ADAMS,
SIMON
ALLARD,
JOHN
BALDWIN,
JIM
THOMAS
National
Youth
Bureau,
1981;
£6.95;
pb;
pp
347
Help
in
making
sense
of
juvenile
justice
since
the
1969
Act,
particularly
the
elastic
and
elusive
concept
of
IT,
is
certainly
welcome.
The
enterprising
NYB
here
offer
a
useful
sourcebook
on
com-
munity
provision
for
problem
youths,
for
workers
concerned
to
enhance
both
legal
and
social
justice
for
adolescents
in
trouble.
The
core
of the
work
is
intended
to
be
the
case
studies,
and
the
editors
clearly
took
some
pains
to
obtain
well
documented
write-ups
which
would
be
marshalled
to
allow
comparative
analysis.
For
me,
however,
the
opening
chapters
on
context
and
the
conclusions
offer
most
illumination,
and
are
very
clear
and
cogent.
Of
the
six
lengthy
studies,
four
present
the
work
of
voluntary
organisa-
tions,
which
point
up
key
issues - the
need
for
training
in
social
group
work
and
youth
leadership,
and
for
congruence
between
practitioners
and
management;
the
difficulties
in
designing
relevant
pro-
grammes
involving
young
people
genu-
inely
in
their
running,
and
community
participation.
The
editors’
attempt
to
summarise
and
compare
the
project
seems
the
least
successful
and
articulate
section.
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