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Kilgariff, Lisa; Solomon, Mindy; Zanotti, Mary; Chambliss, Catherine – 1999
Peer helpers can act as liaisons to high school guidance departments by identifying problems, making appropriate referrals, and encouraging others to obtain professional help if necessary. An active program can help ensure that in the future students are better prepared to handle conflicts that arise within marriage, career, and family. This study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, High School Students, High Schools
Thomas, H. Grant, Jr. – 1987
This document describes the Peer Assistance and Leadership (PAL) Program, a peer helping program developed by the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas. It explains how selected high school students are trained to work as peer facilitators with younger students either on their own campus or from feeder junior high or elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship, High School Students, High Schools

Bowman, Robert P., Ed. – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1983
Focuses on elementary and middle school students as peer helpers. The five articles describe the peer helper concept and how it can enhance learning, offers suggestions for training peer helpers, describes helping projects and program evaluation, and suggests other ways of improving school climate through cross-age interaction. (JAC)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
P.E.E.R.S.: Providing Effective Empathic Resources and Strategies. A Peer Counselor Training Manual.
Anderson, Mildred Buck, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This training manual describes an educational procedure in which students counsel and help facilitate the positive growth and development of other students in their own age group. The materials present a model peer counseling training program consisting of 32 sessions in which group process is used, including eight components focusing on the skill…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Communication Skills, Counseling Services, Counselor Role
South Carolina Univ., Columbia. Center for the Study of the Freshman Year Experience. – 1994
This volume contains abstracts of the presentations on the freshman and entering student programs at over 100 colleges, community colleges, and universities in the United States and Canada. Each abstract describes institutional programs and provides a name, address, and telephone number of the person to contact for additional information. Among…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Faculty, College Freshmen, Diversity (Institutional)