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Peer Programs: An In-Depth Look at Peer Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Administration

Peer Programs: An In-Depth Look at Peer Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Administration

Peer Programs: An In-Depth Look at Peer Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Administration Paperback / softback - 2008

by Judith A. Tindall

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Paperback / softback. New. The 'Peer Power Program' is a peer training program designed for middle, high school, and higher education students. 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. It is of interest to those responsible for implementing peer programs.
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  • Title Peer Programs: An In-Depth Look at Peer Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Administration
  • Author Judith A. Tindall
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: secon
  • Condition New
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York
  • Publication date 2008-07-25
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780415962360
  • ISBN 9780415962360 / 0415962366
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Peer counseling, Peer counseling - Study and teaching
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008021685
  • Dewey Decimal Code 158.3
  • Quantity available 1

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The Peer Power Program is a peer training program designed for middle, high school, and higher education students, focusing on 8 core skills: Attending, Empathizing, Summarizing, Questioning, Genuineness, Assertiveness, Confrontation, and Problem Solving. Through a series of exercises, games, and self-awareness techniques, youth and adults involved in the program can gain the basic communication and mediation skills necessary to effectively help their peers.

An overview of peer helping, Peer Programs 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 programs, this text should also convince those who are not 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. New features of this edition include:

  • updated rationale for peer programs
  • updated highlights from current evaluation
  • added professionalism- CPPE. Certified Program, Programmatic Standards, Rubric and others
  • downloadable resources of forms to customize for all phases of the Peer Program
  • step-by-step guide of new and current programs

This book is an indispensable 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; counselors; ministers; religious educators; social workers; psychologists; human resource personnel and others in the helping professions.

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