Moving from Drugs to Sex: New Directions for Youth-Oriented Peer Counseling

Baldwin, Bruce A.

doi:10.1080/01644300.1978.10392828

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“…As a technique in education it is not new, the 'monitorial system' was used in the 1800s as a cheap method of giving information to pupils in English and French elementary schools (Hopkins, 1979). Peer-led education has been used extensively to meet a variety of educational objectives, such as tutoring of reading (Devin-Sheehan et al, 1976), and peers have been used in a wide variety of health-related initiatives (Vriend, 1969;Davis et al, 1977;Baldwin, 1978;McCue and Afifi, 1996). Peers have used many and diverse methods including presenting lectures/lessons, drama productions, supporting resource centres, operating hot-lines and one-to-one counselling (Lindsey, 1997).…”

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Peer-led and adult-led school health education: a critical review of available comparative research

Mellanby

Rees

Tripp

2000

Health Education Research

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Peer-led health education in school is widely used. Advocates suggest it is an effective method based on the belief that information, particularly sensitive information, is more easily shared between people of a similar age. Critics suggest that this is a method not based on sound theory or evidence of effectiveness. This review evaluates school-based health education programmes which have set out to compare the effects of peers or adults delivering the same material. The identified studies indicated that peer leaders were at least as, or more, effective than adults. Although this suggests that peer-led programmes can be effective, methodological difficulties and analytical problems indicate that this is not an easy area to investigate, and research so far has not provided a definitive answer.

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Peer-led and adult-led school health education: a critical review of available comparative research

Mellanby

Rees

Tripp

2000

Health Education Research

249

175

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“…Underlying this is a concept that peer influence may be stronger than that of adults such as teachers or "experts." Peerled education has been used extensively to meet a variety of educational objectives, such as tutoring of reading [21], and peers have been used in a wide variety of health-related initiatives [22][23][24]. Peer-led education has used successfully in presenting lectures/lessons, drama productions, supporting resource centers, operating hot-lines, and one-to-one counseling [21].…”

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Effectiveness of peer-led media education program for drug prevention among students

Hasel¹,

Beshārat²,

Ejeyeie³

et al. 2016

Eur J Forensic Sci

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Background: Researches showed that interactive programs on drug abuse prevention are generally a more effective than non-interactive ones. As a kind of school-based intervention, peer-led is a new interactive tool designed to utilize social influence theory for drug abuse prevention at school years. The present study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of peer-led education program on students' drug use prevention. Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, the samples selected from four boys and three girl's high schools (n = 500) assigned in intervention group (n = 250) and control groups (n = 250) randomly so that one girl's (n = 250) and one boy's (n = 125) school allocated in each intervention. All students filled a self-report drug use experiment questionnaire at pre-test and post-test stages. The data were analyzed via mean, SD and ANVOVA. Results: Compared with the control group, intervention group who received education via peer-led program decreased students' drug use rates significantly. Conclusion: Peer-led could be a cost-effective method for drug abuse prevention purposes. This program needs to be assessed and examined in different contexts.

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“…Peer counselors are typically trained in basic counseling skills including communication and active listening (7). Peer counselors are useful as helpers because they tend to share common experiences and be more empathetic and accessible than professionals (8). Through their peer counseling experiences, students may also enhance their own personal growth and development (9).…”

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Peer Counselor Training: One Component of a Medical Student Health and Effectiveness Program

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This paper describes a peer corinselor training program designed to train strident volrtnteers to lie& their fellow striderits witla a wide range of diffirilties caused or exacerbated by rtiedical training. The training progrant is described in detail, demographic cliaracteristics of !lie participants are con pared to those of the rest of the strident body, and die activities of the peer corinselors are reported. The students did not differ significantly front the rest of the strident body by age, race, gendec or academic standing. Eight percent of the sticdetit body used the services of the peer counselors, and two students were directed into treatment for alcolioliwi. Developmerit of sirtiilar p r o p m s at other medical sciiools is recoiivnended-KEY WORDS: peer counselor training.

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Moving from Drugs to Sex: New Directions for Youth-Oriented Peer Counseling

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Peer-led and adult-led school health education: a critical review of available comparative research

Peer-led and adult-led school health education: a critical review of available comparative research

Effectiveness of peer-led media education program for drug prevention among students

Peer Counselor Training: One Component of a Medical Student Health and Effectiveness Program

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