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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Self-Esteem Across the Lifespan

Mary H. Guindon Β· 2009
78/100
πŸ‘ Worth It

Guindon's edited volume earns its reputation as the go-to lifespan reference on self-esteem intervention, covering developmental stages and diverse populations with a thoroughness that no single-author text has matched. The multi-author format creates some unevenness, and it is clinical throughout β€” general readers need not apply β€” but for practitioners and researchers it is as comprehensive a resource as the field has produced.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety88
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing65
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers76
Age-fit82
πŸ‘ Human-eye gut-check74
Penny’s verdict78
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