Students helping students: a guide for peer educators on college campuses

This second edition of this practical training guide is for the thousands of college students who serve as leaders, tutors, counselors, and advisors for their peers. It continues the tradition of the first edition--considered the standard for training peer educators--by beginning with a fundamental discussion on student growth and development and providing learning objectives and exercises to help prepare peer educators for such tasks as tutoring, student orientation, residence hall advising, crisis intervention, coaching, and more. The second edition includes: updates on research in the field, including new standard terminology the use of new technology in peer training and intervention broader applications of the peer educator model to include service learning and student retention programs updating of standards and ethics statements three newchapters on the impact of the helping relationship, programs for academic success, and peer programs to include student life discussion of two surveys and intervention programs: the Health Behaviors Assessment, and the College Learning Effectiveness Inventory, which focus on wellness, sexuality, health promotion, safety, violence reduction, and campus violations of alcohol/drug, behavior standards, or honor system

• ISBN: 978-0-470-45209-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 22/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés