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Peer reviewedMcWilliams, Spencer A. – Journal of the American College Health Association, 1979
This report describes a project in which college students were briefly trained to work as counselors in reciprocating peer relationships and compares the effectiveness of peer counseling with traditional professional counseling. (JD)
Descriptors: College Students, Helping Relationship, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Locke, Don C.; Zimmerman, Nancy A. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1987
Found peer-counseling training for Black students in a predominantly White university to be significant in furthering psychological growth. There was movement in the areas of moral reasoning and ego development as measured by the Defining Issues Test and the Sentence Completion Test. Advocates providing programs aimed at improving psychological…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Helping Relationship, Higher Education
Thomas, Jeanne L. – 1992
This textbook is designed to introduce undergraduates to the scientific study of aging in adults. Among the topics covered in the book's 15 chapters are: approaches to the study of adult development and aging (research methodology and related issues, a life-span perspective, ethical issues); theories in the study of adult development (models of…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adults, Age Differences
