The Hero Within: Healing Troubled Boys at Colorado Boys Ranch

by Cynthia Quicksall Landsberg and Judith Pettibone

A collection of moving stories from the Colorado Boys Ranch. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555916112
• ISBN13: 9781555916114
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful story, interesting case studies

The Hero Within tells a series of touching stories that will keep you turning every page - I could hardly put it down; at the same time, by the end of the book I had a new sense of what a treatment center like the Colorado Boys Ranch is and how it works to utilize a variety of treatment methods and perspectives to achieve amazing results. This combination of wonderful storytelling and factual reporting makes for an impressively compelling series of 'case studies' that should be of interest both to the average reader and to people who have a particular (academic) focus on studying psychiatric treatment models. The Ranch's evolution from an orphanage into an accredited residential treatment facility touches on many of the issues that have been prominently debated in discussions of the philosophy of psychiatry - questions about how to treat both persons and bodies, minds and brains; it is well worth reading as a direct account of how a leading institution developed its unique treatment perspective. It is even more worth reading as a heartwarming series of success stories that can help to remind us all that change, even if it is hard, is not impossible.

Heart warming story about changing boys lives

This well written book is a compilation of heart warming success stories about boys who have lived at the Colorado Boys Ranch in La Junta,Colorado. The authors have done a wonderful job of describing the way these boys' lives were changed for the better by their time spent at the ranch. Many of these boys come from dire circumstances. The ranch has used the rural setting to achieve a remarkable success rate that is setting a standard throughout the nation. The stories are fascinating and I could hardly put the book down. Buy this book and you will be helping troubled boys around the nation (as all the authors' proceeds go to the Colorado Boys Ranch). Also your heart will be uplifted and you will be thoroughly entertained.