“…Relatively few studies have specifically explored youth workers’ perspectives on relationships with adolescents or emerging adults in the United States (Barcelona and Quinn, 2011: 32–34; Larson et al, 2015: 75; Vasudevan, 2017: 43–44, 47, 49). This contrasts with other Western nations (e.g., Great Britain, Ireland) where youth work is a recognized career documented in government policy and researched to a greater extent than in the United States (Body and Hogg, 2019:171–186; Dunne et al, 2014: 4–14; European Union, 2015; Hart, 2017: 248–254; Veigel, 2018: 169–176). National data on characteristics and trends concerning youth workers in the field have not been collected in the United States since 2005 according to a 2017 literature review of youth workers in the United States (Vasudevan, 2017: 274, 749).…”