This book provides a comprehensive description of Projects Self Discovery (PSD), a national demonstration model, that uses artistic alternatives as a vehicle for transforming the lives of high-risk teens. The monograph presents the theoretical and empirical bases for program development, strategies for accessing and retaining target youth populations, ethnographic and quantitative methods of client assessment and program evaluation, detailed operational model for program activities including participant guidelines, curricula, and essential elements for an effective counseling stance and results of comprehensive assessment/evaluation efforts.

Harvey B. Milkman and Kenneth W. Wanberg are the authors of Project Self Discovery: Artistic Alternatives for High Risk Youth, published by Wiley.