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Respectful alliances: many traditional approaches to challenging youth only manage surface behavior or administer superficial interventions. Positive Peer Culture sets a goal of transforming the culture and climate of the school so that youth and adults work together in a respectful alliance. Seven core components in this process are outlined.(from the editor)

Fifty years ago, Weeks (1958) reported on the results of a comparison of 229 boys who had participated in the Guided Group Interaction (GGI) program at Highfields in New Jersey with 119 boys committed to a traditional state reformatory. He concluded that 63% of the Highfields boys were successful compared to 47% of the reformatory boys. He also found that Highfields rehabilitated boys in approximately one third of the time of the traditional corrections facility at less cost.

While peer group programs attribute their roots to the pioneering efforts at Highfields, many of the early GGI programs turned into adult-sanctioned peer bullying programs because they were ...

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