Description
Peer Power, Book One (4th Ed.)
Workbook: Becoming an Effective Peer Helper and Conflict Mediator
Author: Tindall Judith A.
Language: English
Subject for Peer Power, Book One:
Keywords
helper; effective; support; group; leader; conflict; mediator; facilitators; mediators; educators; Resource Centers Assistants; Peer Helper; Safety Monitors; Big Brothers Big Sisters; Face To Face; Prep; Peer Helper Training; Drug Treatment Centers; Professional Mental Health Workers; Effective Peer Helper; Skills Trainers; Cooperative Learning Teachers; Total Training Program; Peer Power; Support Group Leader; Peer Facilitators; Peer Programs; Module III; Peer Listeners; Feedback; Flow Sheets; Helper Responses; Follow; Violates; Problem Solving Dialogue
Publication date: 10-2015
· 21x28 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 01-2009
· 21x28 cm · Paperback
Description
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The Peer PowerProgram 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.
Peer Power,Book One,Workbook brings the participating students through first of all understanding their role as a peer helper, understanding themselves based on much of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Asset Building Model. Next, it takes the participant through eight core skills. The last part of the book indicates strategies for implementing peer work into practice. These strategies include limits setting through ethical guidelines, taking care of themselves, conflict resolving skills and putting peer helping into action. The Workbook provides clear instructions for the skills-focused, guided exercises, in a format that is accessible and enjoyable for students in the Peer Power Program.
List of Rating Scales. List of Rating Flow Sheets. Introductory Comments to the Trainee. Overview of Peer Helping Training Program. Roles of Peer Helpers. Unit A: Setting the Stage. Module 1: What is Peer Helping. Module 2: Understanding Yourself and Others. Module 3: Let's Look at Helping. Module 4: Communication Stoppers. Unit B: Developing Skills. Module 5: Attending Skill. Module 6: Empathy Skill. Module 7: Summarizing Skill. Module 8: Questioning Skill. Module 9: Genuineness Skill. Module 10: Assertiveness Skill. Module 11: Confrontation Skill. Module 12: Problem-solving Skill. Unit C: Implementing a Program. Module 13: Strategy Development. Strategy Development 1: Putting Peer Helping into Action. Strategy Development 2: Ethical Considerations in Peer Counseling/Peer Helping. Strategy Development 3: What Next? Additional Readings. About the Author.
