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This remains the best (and only) handbook for learning to be a peer counselor. After years of success with their first editon, the editors have updated and greatly expanded Peer Counseling with new chapters by additional contributors. This new edition provides the basics of rapidly training college students and others in: Listening skills -- Crisis counseling -- Counseling skills Cultural and ethnic perspectives -- Resident advisors Suggested training curriculum Chapters from new contributing authors help reflect changes in the work of the average college campus peer counselor: Ethical considerations -- Making referrals -- Date rape -- Sexual orientation -- HIV antibody test counseling Complete with bibliography and index
Containing abundant demonstrative case examples, this book is designed to provide the skills necessary to counsel - from the initial needs assessment (for resources like food, shelter, medical care, physical protection, or unconditional support) through the conduct of a session (how to start and end one, identifying and reflecting clients' feelings, typical roadblocks, and confidentiality).
"Peer supports really work: They help all students learn, make the most of teacher and paraprofessional time, and foster important social connections among students. This is the concise, practical guide every middle and high school needs to implement peer support strategies - including cooperative learning and peer tutoring - to benefit students with moderate to severe disabilities and their peers." "Filled with photocopiable planning, implementation, and evaluation tools, this must-have guide will help educators and paraprofessionals create schools where all students - with and without disabilities - achieve academic and social success."--BOOK JACKET.
There were more visits to peer support/self-help groups last year, than there were visits to the offices of mental health professionals. Peer support groups have exploded in popularity, as the public and the healthcare community recognize that they provide an effective complement to formal care, and improve the chance that many participants will have better healthcare outcomes. Few peer support/self-help group leaders have more than minimal training in how to lead a group successfully. This is unfortunate, as leading a self-help group is often challenging. This pocket resource is designed to provide easy access to key information and strategies to help Peer Specialists and other lay group leaders develop and expand their group facilitation skills so they can lead healthy thriving peer support groups.
Intentional Peer Support: An Alternative Approach is an innovative curriculum that explores ways to create mutually supportive relationships. It includes appendices for peer support warmlines, peer-run respite programs, and resources for peers working in the mental health system. Topics include:What is Peer Support?The Four Tasks and Three PrinciplesFirst Contact and LanguageListening DifferentlyBuilding Trauma-Informed & Mutually Responsible RelationshipsWorking with Challenging Situations and Negotiating ConflictSelf-Care/Relational Care/Work CareUsing Co-ReflectionPeer Support Competencies and ValuesAnd More...
Holistic Peer Counseling (HPC) is a peer based counseling system which teaches the potentially radical perspective that distress patterns need loving attention to heal. We learn how to be both a client and a counselor so that we can heal ourselves and facilitate healing for others. HPC is "Do It Yourself (DIY)" technology. This means every person who takes the course learns both counseling and clienting skills and practices both roles. In this way, the person being counseled is always in control. They know the techniques, and decide to utilize their triggers as catalysts for healing or not. HPC breaks the dynamic of, "I am healer" and "you heal me." It recognizes that we all have the ability to give and receive loving attention that provides an opportunity for healing.
Originally published in 1996, this book is about the role of peer-helping in alleviating interpersonal difficulties among young people in school settings. It is based on real-life experience on the part of the two editors and their contributors in training and developing peer-counselling services in local schools, in order to strengthen policies on bullying, equal opportunities and related personal issues. Young people’s experience of being actively engaged in helping their peers has a positive effect on self-esteem and heightens a sense of responsibility and citizenship in the young people involved. The book seeks to help teachers, educational psychologists, social workers and others working with young people to appreciate the value of peer counselling and to introduce it into their practice.
Advocacy for consumers of mental health and social services is a key force moving these services toward truly patient-centered care. Patients, family members, Peer Specialists, clinical staff and quality assurance professionals all find themselves in the advocacy role at times, pushing for continued improvement in programs and organizations that patients rely on for their recovery. Unfortunately few people have any formal training or education in how to advocate effectively. This pocket resource is designed to provide easy access to the key strategies and information needed to help anyone finding themselves advocating for small or large changes in a healthcare or social service organization, to do so effectively.
Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) involves children in school consciously assisting others to learn, and in so doing learning more effectively themselves. It encompasses peer tutoring, peer modeling, peer education, peer counseling, peer monitoring, and peer assessment, which are differentiated from other more general "co-operative learning" methods. PAL is not diluted or surrogate "teaching"; it complements and supplements (but never replaces) professional teaching--capitalizing on the unique qualities and richness of peer interaction and helping students become empowered democratically to take more responsibility for their own learning. In this book, PAL is presented as a set of dynamic, robust, effective, and flexible approaches to teaching and learning, which can be used in a range of different settings. The chapters provide descriptions of good practice blended with research findings on effectiveness. They describe procedures that can be applied to all areas of the school curriculum, and can be used with learners of all levels of ability, including gifted students, students with disabilities, and second-language learners. Among the distinguished contributors, many are from North America, while others are from Europe and Australia. The applicability of the methods they present is worldwide. Peer-Assisted Learning is designed to be accessible and useful to teachers and to those who employ, train, support, consult with, and evaluate them. Many chapters will be helpful to teachers aiming to replicate in their own school environments the cost-effective procedures described. A practical resources guide is included. This volume will also be of interest to faculty and researchers in the fields of education and psychology, to community educators who want to learn about the implications of Peer Assisted Learning beyond school contexts, and to employers and others involved in post-school training.
This pocket resource provides Peer Specialists working with adults in mental health and/or substance use treatment, with key information about common terms and strategies they need in order to be effective in this specialized role. It is also provides a customizable resource of referral information that Peers can share with the people they support.