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The Prisoner´s dilemma was first formalized and discussed by Meryll Flood and Melvin Dresher (1950). The story behind it is explained as follow: Two people committed a crime together. Isolated from each other, both are interrogated by the prosecutor. Both have the possibility either to confess or to deny the crime. The penalty of both…

Youth work is a safe playground for youth to test their own ideas. Youth work developed mostly from social or cultural needs but has spread to all aspects of the youth, may that be health, voluntary work, employability, personal and social development and others. With the rise of Erasmus + program and all its predecessors,…

During the past 10–15 years, there has been a striking increase of conservative governments in Europe, often pushed further to the right by the massive emergence of right-wing populist parties. This has had a direct effect on national and international youth policies. The emphasis of the conservative governments in Europe in the last 10 or…

In the emotional intelligence of a youth worker, it is extremely important how to learn how to communicate properly with other people. In Transactional Analysis by Dr. Eric Berne, he talks about the transactions, which are the way that people interact which each other. Berne divides the transaction into complementary, hidden and crossed. However, the…