Vanessa Rogers is a qualified teacher and 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 has written a number of popular resource books aimed at those working with young people, including Working with Young Women, 2nd edition, Working with Young Men, 2nd edition, and Cyberbullying, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Vanessa's website can be found at www.vanessarogers.co.uk.

I feel sure anyone working with young people would find this a beneficial and easily accessible resource. For those working with difficult youngsters who would not fit into a group and for parents who are finding communication difficult with their teenager(s), there are many varied ideas from which they, too, could choose.

• Introduction. The group. 1. Getting to know each other. 2. Friendships and peer groups. 3. Living at home. 4. Love, sex and all that. 5. Evaluation and endings. Acknowledgements.

Vanessa Rogers is a qualified teacher and 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 has written a number of popular resource books aimed at those working with young people, including Working with Young Women, 2nd edition, Working with Young Men, 2nd edition, and Cyberbullying, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Vanessa's website can be found at www.vanessarogers.co.uk.

I feel sure anyone working with young people would find this a beneficial and easily accessible resource. For those working with difficult youngsters who would not fit into a group and for parents who are finding communication difficult with their teenager(s), there are many varied ideas from which they, too, could choose.

• Introduction. The group. 1. Getting to know each other. 2. Friendships and peer groups. 3. Living at home. 4. Love, sex and all that. 5. Evaluation and endings. Acknowledgements.

Vanessa Rogers is a qualified teacher and 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 has written a number of popular resource books aimed at those working with young people, including Working with Young Women, 2nd edition, Working with Young Men, 2nd edition, and Cyberbullying, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Vanessa's website can be found at www.vanessarogers.co.uk.

I feel sure anyone working with young people would find this a beneficial and easily accessible resource. For those working with difficult youngsters who would not fit into a group and for parents who are finding communication difficult with their teenager(s), there are many varied ideas from which they, too, could choose.

• Introduction. The group. 1. Getting to know each other. 2. Friendships and peer groups. 3. Living at home. 4. Love, sex and all that. 5. Evaluation and endings. Acknowledgements.