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Why our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
In the first book to help parents truly understand youth violence and stop it before it explodes, national expert Dr. James Garbarino reveals how to i...
Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who...
Confronting Global Realities and Rethinking Child Development
Synthesizing insights from psychology and philosophy with his own wide-ranging experiences around the world, Dr. James Garbarino takes readers on a pe...
Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem in Your Child's Life
A compassionate and practical guide for parents facing the difficult task of raising children in an increasingly violent world. This intelligent, pare...
Modern Applications of Social Work
The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how force...
Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us
"Miller's Children is a comprehensive look at the consequences of the US Supreme Court's decision in the case of Miller v. Alabama, which outlawed man...
How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence
Citing the pervasiveness of emotional violence in schools, a guide for parents and educators identifies how schools unwittingly support hostile enviro...
Violence . . . drugs . . . poverty . . . abusive families . . . custody battles. Author James Garbarino, whose 30-year career has focused on the effec...
Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence
"Childhood is ideally a time of safety, marked by freedom from the economic, sexual, and political demands that later become part of adult life. For m...
Eliciting, Interpreting, and Evaluating Critical Information from Children
"Sometiems children must speak for themselves--as victims of child abuse, embattled prizes in custody disputes, and witnesses to crimes. In all these ...
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Leveraging Resilience for Life Change
Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indiffe...
Strategies for Identification, Assessment, and Intervention
This volume provides guidelines for those who are investigating, identifying, preventing, and treating the psychological maltreatment of children and ...
Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
From one of America’s leading authorities on juvenile violence comes a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion of violent behavior in girls Wi...
An Ecological Approach to Theory and Practice
Going to the very heart of the problem of abuse, the authors warn that we must bring about change in basic cultural, social, and economic attitudes wh...
Informal Helping in the Human Services
This book offers for the first time a clear conception of what social support networks are, why they are important, how they are identified and sustai...
An Ecological Perspective
It’s a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unl...
Growing Up in a War Zone
No Place to Be a Child takes readers on a remarkable journey inside the lives of children in Cambodia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the West Bank and Gaza S...
Honoring Strengths without Trivializing Suffering
This groundbreaking book is the most comprehensive volume to-date that explores in depth the concept of reverence and strengths-based approaches in th...
Eliciting, Interpreting, and Evaluating Information from Children
Developing and Maintaining Effective Support Systems for Families
The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
How does one investigate a child maltreatment case when the victim is blind, mute, deaf, mentally retarded, or confined to an institution? Special Chi...
Understanding Families at Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment
The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which gradually extended to include the maltreatment of adoles...
Final Report to the New York State Assembly Scientific Advisory Committee
An Activity Book for School-age Children