James Garbarino: 9 books
Lost Boys
Why our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1999
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 identify children who are at risk and offers proven methods to prevent aggressive behavior.
After more than a decade of relentless increase in the urban...
The Positive Psychology of Personal Transformation
Leveraging Resilience for Life Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Given the current climate of economic and environmental uncertainty, it is all too easy for individuals to feel hopeless about their lives and indifferent to the problems of others. But according to leading psychologist, James Garbarino, this is the peak time for people to enhance their optimism,...
And Words Can Hurt Forever
How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2002
As a society, we are only just beginning to understand the degree of damage that bullying inflicts on individual teenagers and on their relationships later in life. In this groundbreaking work, James Garbarino and Ellen deLara uncover the staggering extent of emotional cruelty and its ramifications...
See Jane Hit
Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
From one of Americas leading authorities on juvenile violence comes a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion of violent behavior in girls
With Lost Boys, James Garbarino became our foremost explicator of violent behavior in boys. Now he turns his attention to its increasing incidence...
Listening to Killers
Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence...
Miller's Children
Why Giving Teenage Killers a Second Chance Matters for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Miller’s Children is a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court’s decision in the case of *Miller v. Alabama, *which outlaws mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. The decision to apply the law retroactively to other cases...
Children and Families in the Social Environment
Modern Applications of Social Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The first edition of this volume successfully applied Bronfenbrenner's "micro-systems" taxonomy to childrearing and family life. Emphasizing how forces in the environment influence children's behavior, Garbarino has staked out an intermediate position between the psychoanalytic and the systems approach...
Reverence in the Healing Process
Honoring Strengths without Trivializing Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Reverence is defined as a sense of awe or profound respect for the person. It has become increasing rare in modern culture, not only in health care, but in education and in corporations, where people are too often treated in a dehumanizing way. This groundbreaking book is the most comprehensive volume...
by James Garbarino
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Every several hundred years one person is chosen to be humanity's champion to prevent the apocalypse. They must travel through seven doors to prove humanity's resolve and desire to be on earth. If they fail, the Four Horsemen are unleashed ending humanity's reign on earth.