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Flores, Bob; Weeks, William – 1988
Peer Advising in Agricultural Education has been operating since the Fall Semester, 1987, at Texas A & M University. The program involves several undergraduate students nominated by faculty, who are supervised by two doctoral students. Responsibilities of the peer advisors include informing students of campus procedures, assisting in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Helping Relationship, Higher Education, Peer Counseling
Myrick, Robert D.; Sorenson, Don L. – 1992
This program leader's guide provides suggestions for organizing, administrating, and evaluating a middle school peer helper program. The first chapter builds a case for peer helpers. The problems of youth, peer influence and personal growth, mobilizing student resources, peer facilitators and helpers, four basic helping roles, and advantages of…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Leadership Training, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Painter, Carol – 1989
This manual is a guide for the adult learner who is developing and maintaining a peer counselor program. The first chapter presents an overview of peer counseling. The second chapter describes a model for a high school peer counseling program. Training, placements and programs, and a typical week's schedule are included. The third chapter presents…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Counselor Training, Helping Relationship, High School Students
Mamarchev, Helen L. – 1981
This document contains a computer search of the ERIC database on the topic of peer counseling along with a narrative that highlights documents, identifies issues and trends, and suggests implications for guidance professionals. The concept of peer counseling is introduced and examined in terms of its history and rationale. Roles of peer counselors…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Role, Counselor Selection, Counselor Training
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Henriksen, Eleanor M. – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1991
Describes the implementation of a peer helping program at a middle school and its evaluation. Discusses evaluation of program which included pre- and posttraining surveys of trainees (n=22) and untrained comparison group (n=22) on acquisition of helping skills, personal development, and changes in self-concept, as well as surveys of parents,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Helping Relationship, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Eismann, Edward P. – 1982
The Unitas Therapeutic Community is a mental health treatment and prevention program for Hispanic and Black children and teenagers in the South Bronx, New York City. Based on theories of therapeutic community and social psychology, Unitas stresses psychological methodologies that cultivate the healing potential present in all interpersonal…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Involvement, Helping Relationship, Hispanic Americans
Ater, E. Carolyn, Ed. – 1977
This manual is intended for use by senior adult peer advisors (age 60 and over) engaged in helping relationships in providing consumer education to other senior adults. The advisory procedures are based on a problem solving approach which incorporates the development of a self-help concept. Chapter 1 provides information on consumer advising. It…
Descriptors: Clothing, Consumer Education, Credit (Finance), Death