Barcelona Robert J, Hurd Amy R, Bruggeman Jennifer A
College of Health, Education, and Human Development, Clemson University, USA.
New Dir Youth Dev. 2011 Summer;2011(130):121-39. doi: 10.1002/yd.401.
Youth development professionals and parks and recreation professionals often are charged with providing services to youth. However, the approach of each can be quite different as recreation is a primary focus for recreation professionals and part of many services offered by youth development specialists. Despite the differences, these two groups of professionals can learn a great deal from each other. This article examines youth development and staff training with examples from the field and suggests how youth development professionals can learn from recreation professionals and vice versa. It suggests that parks and recreation professionals can strengthen degree programs, accreditation, certification, and continuing education by incorporating specific youth development competencies established by the National Collaboration for Youth. For their part, youth development professionals can learn from parks and recreation professionals how to enhance recreation programming as part of their services by gaining an understanding of program design, program and activity leadership, and administrative practices. With much debate over whether more education or more experience is a better path for those working with youth, the authors suggest that a combination of both will adhere to the quality of staff. Staff gain further knowledge and skill from academic preparation at the undergraduate and graduate levels, field-based training through jobs and internships, and continuing education courses specializing in youth development competencies and recreation-based competencies set within a youth development environment.
青少年发展专业人员以及公园与休闲专业人员常常负责为青少年提供服务。然而，二者的工作方式可能大不相同，因为休闲是休闲专业人员的主要关注点，也是青少年发展专家所提供的许多服务的一部分。尽管存在差异，但这两组专业人员可以从彼此身上学到很多东西。本文结合该领域的实例探讨了青少年发展与员工培训，并提出了青少年发展专业人员如何向休闲专业人员学习以及反之亦然的建议。文章指出，公园与休闲专业人员可以通过纳入由全国青少年合作组织确立的特定青少年发展能力，来加强学位课程、认证、资质认定和继续教育。就青少年发展专业人员而言，他们可以从公园与休闲专业人员那里学到如何通过了解项目设计、项目与活动领导以及管理实践，来加强作为其服务一部分的休闲项目规划。鉴于对于那些从事青少年工作的人来说，更多的教育还是更多的经验是更好的途径存在诸多争论，作者们建议二者结合将有助于保证员工质量。员工通过本科和研究生阶段的学术准备、通过工作和实习进行的实地培训以及专注于青少年发展能力和在青少年发展环境中设定的基于休闲的能力的继续教育课程，来获取更多的知识和技能。
