This paper describes a self help telephone service for women. The primary focus was the woman within the traditional nuclear family with peer counseling provided by volunteers. The service sees itself as a self help association of women banding together and pooling resources. It has been successful in reaching many women. (NG)

Notes that since 1970, Volunteer Counseling Service of Rockland County, New York, has pioneered innovative use of community laypeople to do high-level counseling for clients with wide range of serious social problems. Gives the history and an overview of the mechanics and model of work that have made this agency feasible. (Author/NB)

Assessed therapeutic processes used by peer and professional counselors during brief, problem-focused individual intervention program with 51 daughters and daughters-in-law who were caring for frail elder. Findings indicated that professionals were significantly warmer and friendlier, engaged in greater exploration, and gave more and different…

Current efforts in sex education tend to focus on adolescent females rather than adolescent males. Parents, schools, community agencies, and religious institutions must be responsive to the adolescent male's need for knowledge about himself as a developing sexual person. (Author)

Research shows that lay counselors function as well or better than professionals in helping youth, a great percentage of whom go to self-help centers rather than formal clinics. The authors urge professional counselors to offer their help to counterinstitutions and cooperate with lay counselors on an equality basis. (SE)

Suggests school and university intervention strategies for preventing suicides among youths, proposed following a series of teenage suicides in Minnesota: closer liaison and backup for the school counselor, peer counseling services, in-school support groups, faculty in-service on suicide, curricular introduction to coping skills and identification…