This is an excellent collection of 33 chapters covering diverse aspects of peer relations among typically developing children and adolescents. Each chapter is well written by active, often eminent, researchers. Together they provide a diverse, up-to-date and very stimulating account of the crucial significance of peer interactions. …
K. H. Rubin, W. M. Bukowksi, and B. Laursen (eds): Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups
Guilford, New York, NY, 2009, xiv + 654 pp, $85.00 (hardback), ISBN 1-59385-441-2