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Nick Luxmoore 
Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness 

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Again and again, young people return to the question, ‘Am I the same as other people or am I different?’ It’s a difficult question to answer. Everyone knows that they’re the same as other people in lots of ways yet they suspect that they might also be different. Or they want to be different… Or they accuse other people of being different… Or they get beaten up for being different…
This book is about young people trying to find answers, or at least trying to live more comfortably with the question. Using dozens of recognisable vignettes, Luxmoore explores young people’s anxieties about ordinariness and extraordinariness, anxieties that affect everything: their behaviour, choices, relationships, happiness. He describes ways of working supportively and imaginatively with young people so that they can begin to find a better balance, enjoying their lives and achieving all sorts of things without losing sight of the fact that – underneath everything and like everyone else – they’re ordinary, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
This original and thought-provoking book will enable professionals in counselling, teaching, youth work and youth justice to support young people struggling with these anxieties and the eternal question, ‘Am I normal?’

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Table of Content

1. Introduction. 2. A Story about difference. 3. Otherness. 4. Trying to be interesting. 5. Ordinariness and extraordinariness. 6. Special. 7. A brittle belief. 8. Ordinary death and ordinary sex. 9. The road not taken. 10. What if and what is. 11. A promised land. 12. Disillusioning. 13. Back to the garden. 14. Ordinary parents, ordinary professionals. 15. Afterword.

About the author

Nick Luxmoore was a school counsellor, trainer, teacher, youth worker and UKCP registered Psychodrama psychotherapist. He had over 35 years’ experience of work with young people and with the professionals who support them. He worked as the Counsellor at King Alfred’s Academy, Wantage, UK.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 144 ● ISBN 9780857004079 ● File size 1.2 MB ● Publisher Jessica Kingsley Publishers ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2529136 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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