Peer Programs: An In-depth Look at Peer Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Administration - Couverture rigide

Tindall, Judith A.; Black, David R.

 
9781138131064: Peer Programs: An In-depth Look at Peer Programs: Planning, Implementation, and Administration
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1138131067 ISBN 13 : 9781138131064
Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Judith A. Tindall and David R. Black

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138131067
ISBN 13 
9781138131064
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
350
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780415962360: Peer Programs

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415962366 ISBN 13 :  9780415962360
Editeur : Routledge, 2008
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