¿Qué habilidades y competencias se valoran de los profesionales que trabajan con adolescencia en riesgo de exclusión social? Análisis desde la acción socioeducativa = What skills and competencies are valued in professionals working with adolescents at risk of social exclusion? An analysis from the perspective of social education
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The exercise of defining the most relevant skills and competencies in certain contexts of social education responds to a need arising from professional practice to improve the social inclusion of more vulnerable groups. Here, we present research conducted with three social institutions attending to the needs of adolescents at risk of social exclusion in Madrid, Galicia and Catalonia, with the aim of analysing adolescents and professionals’ perceptions and assessments of the skills and competencies demonstrated by social educators working with adolescents. We adopted a mixed methodology, combining a non-experimental and ex post facto quantitative approach with a qualitative approach in order to facilitate the comparison of results across successive categorizations and triangulation of information, following Grounded Theory. The target population were adolescents at risk of social exclusion aged 12 to 16 (n=149) and the professionals who work with them (n=92). The results show agreement between the perspectives of the adolescents and the professionals, highlighting aspects such as empathy, accompaniment, support, active listening, involvement, trust, patience, clarity of explanation and sense of humour. The adolescents emphasize the good treatment and respect above all other qualities. Implications for practice include suggestions for improving the design and implementation of social educational action programmes with adolescents, and effectiveness in the actions implemented by professionals, as well as a basic reference for the training plans of social educators
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