An overview of peer helping, this book explains the value of and techniques for helping non-professionals learn to help others one-on-one, in small groups and in groups of classroom size. Intended to be of use to those responsible for planning, implementing and/or administering peer programmes, this text should also convince those who aren't directly involved that peer helping is a worthwhile undertaking - reducing drug and alcohol abuse, dropouts, violence and conflict, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy, stress and negative peer pressure. The text presents the rationale behind peer helping, impact of programmes on problems of society, sample programmes, development concepts, organisational details and implementation procedures for human relations training. This book is intended to serve as a guide for learning important aspects of training peer helpers and as a resource book for a wide range of professional peer helpers, such as: administrators; managers; teachers; counsellors; ministers; religious educators; social workers; psychologists; human resource personnel and others in the helping professions.
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peer helper skills, peer helping program, peer helping training, peer helping professionals, evaluating empathy, peer helpers, youth listeners, peer helper program, programmatic standards, helping programs, group discussion techniques, peer programs, helping peers, peer professional, helping skills, conflict mediator, peer counseling program, helping projects, psychological education, affective education, helping activities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peer Power, National Peer Helpers Association, New York, Children's Defense Fund, San Francisco, Youth Listener, Pacific Grove, Pattonville Heights Junior High, United States, British Columbia, Englewood Cliffs, Peer Pbwer, Maryland Heights, Palo Alto, Peer Facilitator Quarterly, San Diego, Vocational Exploration Group Experience New!
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- Peer Power, Book One: Workbook: Becoming an Effective Peer Helper and Conflict Mediator (Book 1) by Judith A. Tindall on page 5, and page 68
- North Carolina (Celebrate the States) by David Shirley on page 52
- Child Development (4th Edition) by Robert S. Feldman in Back Matter
- Clinical Psychology: Integrating Science and Practice by Arthur Freeman in Back Matter
- Violence in America: The History of Crime (Violence, Cooperation, Peace) by Ted Robert Gurr in Back Matter
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- Peer Power (Book 2) by Judith A. Tindall in Back Matter
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