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.
An enlarged and revised edition of the authors' pioneering work
on building positive youth culture, Positive Peer Culture retains
the practical orientation that made the original attractive to
teachers and youth workers, while adding new material on positive
peer culture (PPC) in schools and community settings, research on
PPC, and guidelines for maintaining program effectiveness and
quality. Concepts of positive peer culture have been applied in a
wide variety of educational and treatment settings including public
and alternative schools, group homes, and residential centers.
Vorrath and Brendtro describe specific procedures for getting youth
"hooked on helping" through peer counseling groups, and for
generalizing caring behavior beyond the school or treatment
environment through community-based service learning projects.
The authors contend that the young people who populate our
nation's schools are in desperate need of an antidote to the
narcissism, malaise and antisocial life-styles 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. On
publication of the first edition, Richard P. Barth, Frank A.
Daniels Professor for Human Services Information Policy, School of
Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill called
Positive Peer Culture "a significant contribution to the
field."
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