Table of Contents

Relationship skills: the value and aims of the helpful relationship; responsible working practice - supervision, record-keeping, confidentiality, ethical issues and boundaries; inter-personal skills - key qualities, prejudices and communication skills; beginnings; adolescents' relationships: respecting parents; changing family relationships - separation, divorce and remarriage; cultural identities; peer relationships - positive development and negative influences; recognising and responding to adolescents' concerns: bullying; drugs and alcohol - users and abusers; in trouble - criminal offending; sexuality and sexual relationships; teenage pregnancy, teenage mothers and teenage fathers; overwhelming emotions - stress, depression, suicidal thoughts and eating disorders; death, bereavement and other loss; leaving home; referring and ending: referrals and endings; a final word.