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# Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them

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    Exceptional and Groundbreaking Book by the Leading Authority in the Field
  

*by D***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2008*

Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them







  
  
     James Garbarino has been referred to by Edward Zigler as one of the nation's major social critics, his groundbreaking research and writing on children in refugee camps around the world, his study of children growing up in war zones from Cambodia, Mozambique, Kuwait, Nicaragua, and Palestine, not to mention his work with children growing up in this country in inner city war zones has influenced a whole generation of child development specialists, mental health professionals, politicians, and policy makers. He has been a truly inspirational figure for me and so many in the field in informing and guiding our work with violent youth. This book is destined to be a classic in the field and makes a compelling case for viewing in a humanistic way those youth who suffer traumatic, often unrecognized, and untreated lacerations to the soul that ultimately lead to a huge cost to society, not just economically, but more poignantly in pain and suffering. Garbarino along with Kenneth Hardy, who is another leading voice in this work, don't condone violence, in fact they deplore it, but they recognize a complicated underlying emotional process consisting of devastating emotional wounds to many of these youngsters who ultimately hurt and in rare, but extreme instances murder others. Typically these wounds have been ignored. In so many cases as Garbarino points out, when you peel away the layers, you will ultimately come to a traumatized child at the core. Tragically, many opportunities along the way are missed with these youngsters to recognize and treat the underlying pain; to provide the trauma-informed treatment that could offer healing to these deeply hurting youth. Our culture has become increasing punitive as if these methods were novel. The basic philosophy behind these harsh methods is that we need to break down the spirit of the kid. What is sadly missed in this approach is that for most of these kids their spirit is already broken down. Garbarino injects a refreshing breath of fresh air in the stale, dank, and limiting prevailing approaches that further demoralize our youth and offer little respite from violence in our society. To simply demonize our youth and to heap still harsher punitive measures on them is a deadend. By contrast, Garbarino's humanistic philosophy and deep committment to hurting youth opens the door to newer, more hopeful possibilites. His work has been instrumental in the encouraging movement in the last 8 years to develop trauma-informed treatment programs for youngsters in residential treatment diagnosed with conduct disorder. The Sanctuary Model developed by Sandra Bloom is one sterling example of such an approach. This is the first book I recommend to people working with violent youth. The field will be forever indebted to James Garbarino for this humanistic turning point in the treatment of deeply troubled youth.

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    Pertinent today
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2018*

Though the statistics may be old, the content isn’t. I like that the book addresses change not just in one or two areas, but looks at communities and society as a whole in having a responsibly in creating a non-toxic social environment. In today’s society and political climate, it will be an uphill battle but the research bares out considering. Learned a lot.

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    Lost Boys: Understanding Boyhood
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2009*

Boys are sometimes victims of a society that doesn't appreciate them. Their adventurous, high-spirited characteristics are suppressed by teachers and a world that says, "Behave." They should behave of course but they should also be allowed to be boys. This means picking up snakes, carrying pocket knives, and learning to hunt. Garbarino does an excellent job of explaining how boys can turn violent. They are frustrated with a world that doesn't see them for the valuable beings they are. This is an excellent book that can help parents and youth works better understand the emotional needs of boys.

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