Background and purpose Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research. The earliest notions of social street work origins from the end of the18th century by the British Salavation Army (Mikkonen et al., 2007). …

Steeds meer jongeren in grote steden kampen met omstandigheden die hen overweldigen. Soms weten ze zich daaruit te ontworstelen en krijgen ze zicht op een beter leven. Positieve emoties en succeservaringen zijn daarbij cruciaal, blijkt uit het recente promotieonderzoek van Sebastian Abdallah in Beiroet …

Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work. Political developments require to demonstrate the added value of professional youth work to active citizenship. Due to the complex, dynamic and interactive nature of professional youth …

Alliance has been shown to predict treatment outcome in family-involved treatment for youth problems in several studies.However, meta-analytic research on alliance in family-involved treatment is scarce, and to date, no meta-analytic study on the alliance–outcome association in this field has paid attention …