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Finitsis, David J.; Cruess, Dean G.; Pinnamaraju, Sharishma; Robinson, Paul; Woodruff, Torri A. – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Needle anxiety symptoms are prevalent among college students and predict lack of engagement in student health initiatives including influenza immunization programs. Most do not seek treatment for their anxiety. Objective: To develop and test a peer-delivered, brief motivational interview to promote help-seeking behaviors among college students…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Immunization Programs, Intervention, Help Seeking
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Dunn, Allison L.; Moore, Lori L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the learning experienced by second-year undergraduate students serving as peer mentors to first-year students within a leadership-themed living-learning community. A basic qualitative approach was used, with data collected from semi-structured interviews conducted with participants at the…
Descriptors: Peer Counseling, Peer Teaching, Leadership, Living Learning Centers
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Vivian Yuen Ting Liu; Alexandra Haralampoudis; Isabel Polon – Research in Higher Education, 2024
College education plays a crucial role in upward social mobility. However, despite applying to and being accepted by colleges, students often fail to matriculate -- a phenomenon known as "summer melt". The summer after high school graduation is a vulnerable period for these students due to limited counseling support from both high…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Social Mobility, Higher Education, Summer Programs
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Mills, Ann S.; Vimalakanthan, Kiruthiha; Sivapalan, Shivajan; Shanmugalingam, Neshanth; Weiss, Jonathan A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Peer volunteers have been found to be effective in delivering psychosocial interventions when they come from the same culture and share similar experiences as participants. We examined the clinical utility (feasibility and preliminary effectiveness) of a community-based, manualized, peer-delivered group counselling program to address the need for…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Parents
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Wong, Shui-wai; Chui, Yat Hung; Chan, Yuk Chung; Ting, S. Raymond; Lam, Jason K. H. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2016
The present study is the first empirical research in Hong Kong to evaluate a peer career counselling programme consisting of a 3.5-day training and a school-based service project. Using a quasi-experimental design, the evaluation was based on the Career Readiness Scales ratings at three waves of data collection. Results showed that the programme…
Descriptors: Peer Counseling, Career Readiness, Comparative Analysis, Career Counseling
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Keup, Jennifer R. – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2016
Given the powerful and ubiquitous qualities of peer influence, higher educators have begun to harness this resource in student support and service delivery by using undergraduates as leaders, mentors and educators for their fellow students. This paper analyses data from 1,942 students from 142 institutions in the United States who responded to a…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Peer Influence, Peer Counseling, Student Surveys
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O'Reilly, Aileen; Barry, James; Neary, Marie-Louise; Lane, Sabrina; O'Keeffe, Lynsey – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2016
The use of peer education has been well documented within the discipline of health promotion, but not within the youth mental health domain. This paper describes an evaluation of an innovative schools-based peer education training programme that involved preparing young people to deliver a mental health workshop to their peers. Participants…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Youth Programs, Questionnaires, Secondary School Students