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Irwin L. Kutash, Samuel B. Kutash, Louis B. Schlesinger, and Associates. Foreword by Alexander Wolf

FROM THE COVER: In recent years, examples of violence and aggression-prison riois, bombings, terrorist

attacks, assassinations-have been widespread, and today I out of every 10,000 deaths in the United States is the result of murder. Yet, despite the presence of violence everywhere, who really understands it or knows what to do about it? Why are people aggressive? What leads them to murder? Why do parents abuse their children? Is violent behavior instinctive or learned? How should violent individuals be Irealcel? Can violence be predicted, controlled, or-belter yet-prevented? This new book investigates these and other pertinent questions.”

Jossey-Bass Publishers. San Francisco • Washington • London • 1978. 581p.

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Vicki L. Agee

FROM THE PREFACE: ‘This book is designed for youth workers and those who intend to be youth workers. The term youth workers is deliberately vague, since this career is chosen by people of extremely varied backgrounds, experience, and education, and so it should be. The job is too significant to our society's future to allow one category of professional or paraprofessional to be labeled as the experts and the rest as the followers. This book is for those who face daily the enormous problems of extremely disturbed youths. This includes those working in mental health, youth corrections, social services, education, law enforcement, etc. This does not mean that anyone can be a youth worker. In fact, it is the author's opinion that the percentage of potential human services workers who have the abilities and skills necessary to work successfully with troubled youth is small. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss some of the personality characteristics necessary for quality performance…”

Lexington Books. D.C. Heath and Company Lexington, Massachusetts. 19679. 176p.