Students Helping Other Students is the basis of success for the Admissions Representative program at the University of New Hampshire. Through such a program, students enrolled at an institution assist prospective students and the professional staff by interviewing, giving tours, and generally assisting in a "paraprofessional" capacity. (Author)

The authors explain how counselors can start a Student Helper Program in their school and discuss several of the problems most often encountered, i.e., lack of time, lack of skills, lack of administrative support. (HMV)

Urges black counselor educators to make peer counseling a part of the counselor education curriculum. (Author)

This training manual presents concepts and skills that students can be taught to successfully address social, economic, and ethical issues both inside and outside of school. The manual is intended as a comprehensive guide for effective service learning and peer helper programs; the concepts and skills provided here are designed to apply human…

Socially competent children have been found to be effective negotiators, typically selecting more adaptive, non-physical strategies for resolving conflicts with peers. To explore this association, background information involving research with children's social strategies is presented. The research is part of a larger study concerning school-based…

Many thousands of students are now serving their peer groups in a variety of helping positions on college campuses. Their success as peer counselors is largely dependent upon the skills they developed in training. To be effective, these students must first examine their own personal strengths and weaknesses, know problem-solving strategies, and…

This paper provides a program overview and review of the literature on the Teaching Students to be Peacemakers Program (TSPP), which offers peer mediation and conflict resolution to students of all ages. The program features seven steps: creating a cooperative environment; teaching students the nature of conflict; teaching all students the problem…

Peer-designated crisis helpers are compared with non-peer-designated random helpers. Both helper groups were interviewed to discover what was done in crisis intervention. Peer-designated helpers intervene in more crises of a potentially serious nature and are more likely to take some direct action. (Author)

The author cites studies that demonstrate the value of peer group techniques for reinforcing learning in educational settings. She reviews the literature on peer group learning in nursing education, and presents a peer group teaching-learning strategy that she developed for a course in community health and psychiatric nursing. (Author/CT)

The development and implementation of a Peer Advising Program at the University of Wisconsin-Superior is discussed. The program's components and evaluation are described and observations and conclusions drawn from a working model are provided. An advisor evaluation form is appended. (MLW)

Describes the "Peer Support System," which involved older people in the provision of improved mental health services, including education and service identification. The program consisted of recruiting and training 48 peer counselors, and conducting monthly health education workshops. Funded by the Administration on Aging, the project…

Focuses on the large and increasing number of older widows available for human service work within the hospice movement caring for the dying and bereaved. Suggests widows possess an empathetic readiness for work in this human service field, and become both beneficiaries and benefactors of their service efforts. (Author)

A peer counseling training unit for preservice teachers can increase participant empathy level and listening skills in a relatively short period of time. (JD)

A survey of 210 students in grades 5-7 in six Toronto (Canada) schools found that students' willingness to serve as peer mediators declined significantly between fifth and seventh grades. There were no significant differences by gender in willingness to participate. (SV)