About this Book

This 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