Peer Programs

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.