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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherAldine Transaction
ISBN-100202360202
ISBN-139780202360201
eBay Product ID (ePID)1576562
Product Key Features
TopicDevelopmental / Child
Publication Year1974
Book TitlePositive Peer Culture
LanguageEnglish
GenrePsychology
AuthorHarry H. Vorrath, Larry K. Brendtro
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
LCCN73-089515
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal305.2/35
SynopsisThis revision of an important and path-breaking work holds to its central argument that troubled young people can develop self-worth, significance, dignity, and responsibility only through commitment to the positive values of helping and caring for others. The authors contend that the young people who populate our nationas schools are in desperate need of an antidote to the narcissism, malaise, and antisocial lifestyles that have become so prevalent, and that this book seeks to provide a way of meeting their increasing cry to be used in some demanding cause. As was noted by Richard P. Barth of the University of North Carolina upon the publication of the first edition, Positive Peer Culture is aa significant contribution to the field.a