Ever wonder why you're still not happy with your life even though it seems like you have it all?

Do you feel uncomfortable when someone asks you what your future holds?

Can't figure out why seemingly little things mushroom into huge problems?

Many of us live our lives behaving how we think others would want us to or doing things a certain way because that's how our parents did it. Values Clarification is a series of self tests that will help you identify and understand, maybe for the first time in your life, what it is that is truly important to you and how to integrate those things into your life.

Each of the excercises is easy to understand and complete regardless of your education level. Another fantastic feature is that many of the excercises also have revised versions for you to use with children and what better gift for a child than a strong and grounded belief in their own values and morals?.

This book is a MUST READ for EVERYONE, so do yourself a great favor and get a copy, then share it with those you love and even (especially?)those you don't!

Values Clarification is an excellent source for junior high and high school counselors. The information and activities lend themselves perfectly for use in large class settings, smaller support group settings, and individual counseling sessions. The activities are eye-opening, interesting and very easy to facilitate. It is well worth the cost of the book.

Excellent book to read for people who are concerned with the approach and values in psychotherapy.

Carl Rogers reviewed many of his heart-felt issues in the subject matter.

The "client-centered" approach in psychotherapy cannot be ignored if we do believe that human being is more than just one class of object in the study of science.

Get one and find it out yourself! Easy reading and extremely insightful!

A great source book of information about Camp Santanoni for anyone who has visited this or any other great camp in the Adirondacks. The book is full of historical information, stories, drawings and photographs chronicalling Camp Santanoni - from the influences of Japanese culture on Robert Pruyn (Santanoni's original owner) as a young man, to the present state of this wonderful Adirondack treasure. The photos of the families influenced by Santanoni, the illustrations of the conceptual framework of the architecture, and photos of the land and supporting buildings are numerous and well placed. Simply a thorough and entertaining book.

Howard Kirschenbaum's 100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in School and Youth Settings combines tried and true, field-tested techniques for contemporary values education in one volume. He expands upon work done in the early 1990s in collaboration with authors such as Sidney Simon and Leland Howe. His focus is on presenting a relatively easy to use selection of exercises that can be incorporated into preexisting curriculum at various educational levels to inculcate and model traditional values in a setting that allows for student discussion, input and skill building. This work responds to the growing call for materials to help renew character education in the public and private school setting. Kirshenbaum traces a short history of the various types of character education prevalent in the United States over the past two centuries. While discussing comprehensive moral education, which consists of a pluralistic variety of approaches to this issue, he concludes that values and morals education is a "single endeavor with two goals". The four major movements of values education are values realization, character education, citizenship education, and moral education. He quickly concludes as others do, that modeling the behavior of teachers and historical figures are the principle method of values education. Community and parental involvement is also a key to success. Implementation of this adjunct to the curriculum must involve real world problems and examples. The remainder of the book is filled with (literally) his 100 methods, along with hundreds of specific examples, ideas, clever cartoons and substantial quotations. Many methods are ones that the reader is likely to remember from their own schooling; nevertheless, the extensive collection of ideas is worth the price. Of particular note are some final suggestions for measuring, quantifying, and evaluating the results of a comprehensive character education program. Perhaps the only critical note to this book is the author's politically correct notion that he must somehow balance the use of masculine and feminine pronouns by arbitrarily using male pronouns in the first half and feminine pronouns in the second half. His pronoun usage would have gone unnoticed by the reader, except that this technique is trumpeted in a footnote in Chapter Two. It then becomes an irritating distraction to see if he is indeed consistent in his usage. Perhaps a weakness of social scientists is their calling attention to this relatively insignificant non-issue. For if it matters, then why do females have the second and not the first half of the book?

This is a classic how-to book on how to use cult mind control in the classroom to indoctrinate your children into views which are contrary to what you are teaching them at home. Written by the developers of the method, it focus on psychological techniques to be used at the hands of amateurs to lead your children subtly into the values chosen by the educational establishment. These techniques even now are being implemented in some classrooms. You are being compelled by law to place your children in government indoctrination centers where these techniques are being used to undermine your children's belief in God and in the unalienable rights which our founders recognized in the Declaration of Independence. Incidentally, such indoctrination also serves government minions well, as they teach our children to acquiesce as our freedoms are taken from us. Read it and weep! Read it to be informed. Do not expect to experience pleasure from the reading; instead, stay close to the bathroom. But if you want to know what the enemy is doing to your children, this is a must-read. You will come away with intimate knowledge of why the leading cause of death in our young people is suicide, why Columbine happened (these techniques were being used there) and why we got to the point where election fraud in Florida became thinkable.

This is a great, objective book that helped provide some of the best conversations I and my staff and groups have ever had. For those who aren't afraid to share their true selves and emotions and who are looking for some unique ways to open up groups--this is the book for you.

In this book , Simon et al offer over 70 different activities and written exercises designed to help people learn about values and explore their own values. Although it is ostensibly targeted to school-teachers, the strategies are useful for all ages. One very interesting aspect is that the book refrains from endorsing any particular values. Instead, the concept they have is that we need to treat students more as autonomous valuing beings that already have a fairly well defined system of values. A student's problem is not that he has no ideas about what is good/bad right/wrong. Rather he does know these things but is usually confused about his own beliefs. The activities are thought provoking and diverse.