Veteran/students employed under the VA Work-Study Program at Harrisburg Area Community College serve as peer counselors and perform other veterans affairs related work to benefit veterans. In addition to the monetary reward of employment, VA Work-Study students increase their grade point average significantly. (Author)

Students in an experimental group received peer-facilitator training twice each week for three weeks and a group leadership experience. Results fail to support the concept of peer-facilitator training and group leadership experience as a remedial technique with low-performing elementary school students. (Author)

Studied the effects of a peer helper program for elementary school students. While attitudes and self-concepts of fifth-graders trained as facilitators did not change significantly, peer facilitators were effective in helping second and third graders improve their classroom behaviors and school attitudes. (ABB)

Describes a peer counseling program for juvenile delinquents for which counselors were trained in basic listening skills and how and when to use problem solving, decision making, and referral procedures. Observes that counseling was most effective when counselors outnumbered the students. (SRT)

Assigned nursing home residents (N=59) to one of three conditions: task-oriented peer counseling group, insight-oriented peer counseling group, or control. Task group increased in internal locus of control and life satisfaction; insight group increased in internal locus of control and trust; controls decreased in trust. (Author/ABL)

Describes a high school orientation program for freshmen, designed to familiarize students with appropriate school-related behaviors through exploration, clarification, questioning, and discussion. Results of a program evaluation indicated participants had less failure, less absences, and less conduct problems than nonparticipants. (BL)

Describes the use of Peer Tutor/Counselors in the Learning Skills Development Center at the University of Southern California. Considers the skills involved in training tutors as counselors (e.g., building rapport, establishing credibility, assessing needs, creating a "serious" atmosphere, and articulating expectations, defusing…

Describes a system of action counseling for adolescents in crisis, focusing on counselor, peer, parent, and teacher roles. (BL)

Describes one school's program to deal with school phobic students--those whose emotional problems are often centered on the school setting. Explains how such students formed and ran a peer support group to help each other cope with anxiety. (FL)

Examined the effects of systematic peer helper training on perceived stress of resident assistants (N=52) who received either concurrent or prior training. Results indicated that training received before beginning work seemed to lessen stress while concurrent training was of marginal value. No sex differences were reported. (JAC)

Describes the implementation of Exxon's Student-to-Student advising program at Wautauga College. Advanced students are hired to teach beginning students basic college survival skills including time management, taking lecture notes, reading textbooks, taking exams, writing reports, making oral presentation, and improving interpersonal relations.…

Describes a project with Native American tribes in Louisiana which trains paraprofessionals to provide minimal mental health services for their own people and to gain access to various state agencies. The project was viewed as successful by the trainees and an outside evaluator. (JAC)

Describes the use of peer counselor programs for adolescents. Discusses several methods of peer counseling training including training manuals and curriculum guides. Examples of several specific programs are presented. (JAC)

As the major consumers of health care at the university level, students should become involved in the entire process of providing such care, including the formulation of programs and procedures, choice of personnel, public relations, and involvement on the national level through the American College Health Association. (MB)

The author describes a peer counseling service for sex-related concerns at a City University of New York affiliated college, describing background material, training and program concerns, various resistances to the program, results of the service, and an evaluation of the goals. (MB)