Describes a peer counseling program, the Oneonta Opportunity Program, for educationally and academically disadvantaged students. Its purpose was to provide academic advising and counseling, institutional orientation, and regular formal contact for the first-time college student (freshman). (Author)

An attempt to establish a self-help network based on shared peer-counseling for families of dying children in a Midwest teaching hospital is described and evaluated. Structure of the group meeting is delineated in terms of environment, didactic presentations, and practices of peer-counseling. (Author)

A description is given of the peer counselor training program of the Stanford University Student Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services Division. (MJB)

Undergraduate students (N=1,032) using a peer advisement service completed a questionnaire containing a personal profile, reasons for using the service, previous use, how students learned of service, and evaluation of peer advisers. Results support continued use of existing peer advisement training model, which includes interpersonal communication…

The article discusses a four-part crisis intervention training program used to train selected high school students as peer counselors in a suicide prevention program. Initial evaluation data suggest many students use the peer counseling service because school counselors are unavailable or a stigma is attached to seeing a counselor. (Author/DB)

Trained healthy, elderly residents of retirement community in facilitative communication skills. Tested before and after training were 12 residents who revealed significant increase in self-perceptions of helpfulness. Also found significant increase in abilities to discriminate between helpful and unhelpful ways of responding to people with…

The evolution of a peer counseling project at a school for the deaf in Canada is described. Reasons for establishing the program, key elements (engendering support, student selection, training workshops, school involvement, supervision, and evaluation), the role of facilitators, and training demands are discussed (Author/DB)

Two studies evaluated effects of peer counseling training on interpersonal helping skills and attitudinal reactions of 60 rehabilitation clients assigned to experimental or control groups. Participants reacted positively to peer counseling training and demonstrated significantly higher levels of basic interpersonal helping skills than did the…

Evaluates the effectiveness of a peer counseling training program in a nursing home in Victoria, B.C. The goal was to expand the number of helpers available and involve more residents in their self-care. The results indicated that the training model used is an effective method of teaching helping skills. (Author/JAC)

As part of a school reform program, focused initially on literacy the San Diego City Schools decided to create the position of school-based staff developer. Creating this position proved to be a daunting challenge, with considerable disagreement between the union and the school district. Data were collected about the early implementation of the…

Briefly describes identification, training and sueprvising of mature indigenous students as counselors to provide a network conducive to foreign student interaction and to interaction with the university community. (Author/CJ)

A report of the results obtained from a personality study of students who volunteered for a peer counselor training program at an Australian University. (JC)

The characters of this study were two boys in a class for pupils with learning disabilities. After an initial assessment, which revealed that the inappropriate verbalizations occurred about twice each day, the peer-manager, contingent on each inappropriate remark, moved away from the subject to another desk explaining to the subject why he was…

Nonprofessional undergraduates rated job interviewee behavior. Results obtained with the student raters paralleled those of professionals. Student subjects discriminated nonverbal behaviors in making evaluations. Implications for future research with students as subjects and the development of peer counseling programs for job interview preparation…

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)