Peer Power
Peer Power

Author: Judith A. Tindall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1135897069

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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. The professional strategies book provides the program leader/facilitator with clear and easy to follow guidelines for implementing the Peer Power Program. Picking up where Book One left off, the leader's guide to Book Two proceeds through the same series of Modules that are found in the Book Two Student Workbook. For each exercise in the student Workbook, this leader's guide provides instructions for introducing and implementing the exercise, time and material requirements, description of its purpose and goal, and application assignments. Equipped with the professional strategies book, the program leader (teacher, school counselor, juvenile center officer, mental health professional, and human resource professional) can quickly and confidently work through the Peer Power curriculum.

Peer Power, Book Two
Peer Power, Book Two

Author: Judith A. Tindall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 113589700X

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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. Picking up where Book One left off, the Peer Power, Book Two: Workbook brings the participating students through a series of Modules, focusing on how to apply the core skills learned in the first half of the program in real life situations. This volume covers topics such as drugs and alcohol abuse, taking care of you through stress management, leadership training, tutoring, group work, enhancing sexual health, disordered eating, suicide prevention, coping with loss, highway traffic safety, bullying reduction, mentoring, crisis management, character education, problem gambling prevention, and tobacco prevention.

Peers Helping Peers
Peers Helping Peers

Author: Judith A. Tindall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135059462

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First published in 1990. This book includes a program for peers helping peers at the pre-adolescent stage. It provides information for peer helpers to learn helping skills; be a special friend to others; become an effective helper; share with others and show they care. It will introduce skills such as getting acquainted, the helping process; caring- listening with your body; empathy; the 'I' message, helpful questioning; conflict resolution; decision-making and goal setting and putting peer helping into action.

Peer Counseling
Peer Counseling

Author: Judith A. Tindall

Publisher: Accelerated Development

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13:

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A step-by-step model for training peer counselors forms the basis of this trainer's manual and for the accompanying exercises for trainees which are organized into two books for effective skill building. Chapter I of the trainer's manual contains an open letter to the trainer which lists requirements for being effective in training peer counselors. Chapter II looks at the concept of peer counseling and its components, chapter III examines the changing roles of counselors, and chapter IV presents research findings on peer counseling. Chapter V focuses on development of the trainer. Chapter VI discusses the setting up of a peer counseling program, chapter VII reviews the training model and procedures to follow, and chapter VIII presents the training program itself, which is divided into modules designed to cover all eight basic communication skills. Following this chapter are two sets of modules for the two books of activities for trainees, 13 modules for Book 1, The Introductory Program, and 11 modules for Book 2, Applying Peer Helper Skills. Chapter IX describes operationalizing peer counselors/helpers and advanced training, chapter X deals with program evaluation, chapter XI discusses peer counseling in action, and chapter XII provides guidelines for the paraprofessional in human services. Appendixes contain pre- and posttests on the positive values continuum, evaluation forms, other forms and application blanks, and rating sheets. Lists of references and additional readings are included. (NB)

Peer Helping
Peer Helping

Author: Robert D. Myrick

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13:

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This guide may be used as a text for peer helper, lay leadership, or volunteer worker training programs. The first chapter describes the facilitative model as it applies to peer helping, and presents an overview of the guide. The second chapter examines the nature of people. Eight basic principles of human behavior are outlined. The third chapter focuses on building a close working relationship. Conditions essential in a helping relationship are discussed. The fourth chapter examines listening skills. Four steps for attentive listening are presented. The fifth chapter contains information about responding. High facilitative responses, and low facilitative responses are examined. The sixth chapter focuses on giving feedback. A facilitative feedback model is presented, as well as guidelines for giving and receiving feedback. The seventh chapter discusses problem solving. A five-step decision-making model is presented. Decision-making dialogue is included to illustrate the principles of the model. The eighth chapter suggests helping projects for peer helpers. Each project has specific goals, some of which may take specialized training and practice. The ninth chapter presents guidelines for peer helping programs. Issues examined include enlisting a trainer, determining goals, obtaining support for the program, choosing a site for training, selecting trainees, organizing the training curriculum, supervision and evaluation of services and projects, and networking with other peer trainers. (LLL)

Peer Programs
Peer Programs

Author: Judith A. Tindall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1135896925

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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.

Teaching Helping Skills to Middle School Students
Teaching Helping Skills to Middle School Students

Author: Robert D. Myrick

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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This program leader's guide provides suggestions for organizing, administrating, and evaluating a middle school peer helper program. The first chapter builds a case for peer helpers. The problems of youth, peer influence and personal growth, mobilizing student resources, peer facilitators and helpers, four basic helping roles, and advantages of peer helper programs are discussed. The second chapter focuses on selecting a training approach. The academic elective class, summer course, teacher-advisor group, retreat-workshop, school club, and project-focused team are explored. The third chapter examines the primary elements involved in organizing training programs. Program goals and objectives, the program trainer/coordinator, program support, how many to train, how to select the students, when and where to meet, and how to be helpful are discussed. The fourth chapter organizes the training program into four different phases. Getting organized, facilitative skills, decision making and problem solving, and getting ready to help others are discussed. Ethics and confidentiality, responsible referrals, critical moments in peer helping, pitfalls to avoid, and evaluating the training are also discussed. The fifth chapter focuses on implementing peer helper projects. The sixth chapter discusses teaching others in peer-led learning centers. The seventh chapter addresses preventing alcohol and drug abuse. Gateway drugs and illegal drugs are identified. The eighth chapter discusses networking, and the ninth chapter focuses on program evaluation. (LLL)