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Kees, Michelle; Risk, Brittany; Meadowbrooke, Chrysta; Nellett, Timothy; Spinner, Jane – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
Student veterans have been attending college in greater numbers since the passing of the Post/9-11 GI Bill. Although similar to other nontraditional students, student veterans face unique transition challenges that can affect their pursuit of higher education. Many student veterans could benefit from dedicated programs to help them succeed in…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Social Support Groups, Peer Influence, College Students
Fruiht, Veronica M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
This paper considers the functions of supportive individuals in the lives of community college and 4-year college students and how such support can promote hope, defined as agency and pathways thinking. We surveyed 181 college students regarding their supportive relationships and found that parents were most likely to be nominated as a primary…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Support Groups, Student Surveys, Mentors
Feng, Bo – Human Communication Research, 2009
Viewing supportive communication as a multistage process, the present study proposed and tested an integrated model of advice giving, which specifies three sequential moves in supportive interactions involving advice: emotional support, problem inquiry and analysis, and advice. Seven hundred and fifty-two participants read and responded to a…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Interpersonal Communication, Models, Helping Relationship
Borgen, William A. – 1995
Due to ongoing changes in the labor market, groups that assist people in developing or changing career directions are particularly important. This digest outlines some features of employment group counseling. Research has shown that the unemployed face numerous factors, such as job rejections and financial pressures, that can hinder the job…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Careers, Counseling Techniques, Group Counseling

Tomkiewicz, S. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 1986
Conflict generally exists in relationships between families of disabled individuals and care agencies, with the amount of conflict depending on the condition and age of the handicapped person, sociocultural level of the family, and characteristics of the agencies. A model is proposed for improved dialogue between families and professional teams.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Caregivers, Conflict, Disabilities
McDonald, Linda; And Others – 1988
The paper explores the impact of child variables, parent variables, and family resources (professional and informal supports) on the family's ability to cope with a child with special needs. Child variables include child gender, birth order, severity of handicap, degree of child dependency, extent of attachment, age of the child, and presence of…
Descriptors: Coping, Disabilities, Emotional Adjustment, Family Problems

Pearson, Richard E. – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1983
Offers a conceptualization of support groups, differentiating them from counseling and psychotherapy groups. Discusses implications for group formation, membership, and format. Support groups can be relevant to both remedially and developmentally oriented helping efforts, as surrogate support systems for persons who have experienced support loss.…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Group Dynamics, Helping Relationship, Human Services

Herman, Sandra E.; Marcenko, Maureen O. – Mental Retardation, 1997
This study examined effects of resource perceptions and respite use in a theoretical model of adaptation with 72 parents of children with developmental disabilities. Amount and quality of respite services indirectly affected parental depression. Both quality and respite use were related to helpfulness of the parent's social network. The strongest…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Developmental Disabilities, Emotional Adjustment, Helping Relationship
Pedersen, Paul – 1982
This paper presents a comprehensive three-dimensional view of counseling which incorporates nonformal and informal counseling modes. Several specific issues in cross-cultural counseling are cited and the distinction between the process of counseling and its functions is discussed. Case examples of the use of nonformal and informal counseling modes…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Services, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Client Relationship
Nelson, Lynda A. – 1986
Over the 3 years of funding, 1983-1986, the Volunteers in Partnership with Parents Project (VIPP), a Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) Model Demonstration Program funded by the U.S. Department of Education, designed and implemented a program model for parents in rural North Carolina who had significantly handicapped preschool…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Programs

Kaufman, Allan V. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1990
Presents a framework that identifies variables associated with relationship dynamics that exist between older persons and their social network members. Suggests framework can be used by case managers to help them assess the characteristics and functioning of their clients' social network relations and develop service strategies that maximize the…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Counseling Services, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Role

Abbot, Nan; Wilkinson, Laurie – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
This case study describes the development of a model peer support program during the school reintegration of an adolescent girl who sustained a traumatic brain injury. A series of meetings was held with the girl's social network to provide information, guidance, acknowledgement of friends' feelings, interventions for behavior problems, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Friendship

Rule, Sarah; And Others – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1990
An in-service training model was developed to encourage collaboration among regular classroom teachers to assist mainstreamed handicapped students. The model encourages teams of educators to undergo training, uses a collegial approach, provides a forum for sharing classroom problems and possible solutions, and provides technical skills for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Collegiality, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Planning
Slinski, Margaret D. – 1990
This manual explains how to implement the Master Teacher in Family Life (MTFL) Program. This training model is designed to teach natural leaders within poor communities the information and skills to create an effective internal communication system to educate fellow residents about important issues and create and sustain a network of support for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Communication Skills, Community Action
Simpson, Ormond – 2000
This book, which is intended for individuals involved in recruiting and teaching students in open and distance learning (ODL) situations, examines academic and nonacademic student support issues in ODL. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's 14 chapters: (1) models and definitions of ODL systems; (2) rationale for student…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Adult Students, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques