Students as Peer Helpers: An Untapped Resource

Bowman, Robert P.; Myrick, Robert D.

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“…Moreover, a significant portion of counsellors increasingly focus their efforts on reaching pupils through other means, such as consultation with and guidance of teachers (and sometimes parents), planning and implementation of general prevention programs for entire age groups, and group work (Hartman, 1988;Thompson, 1992). In addition, there has been an attempt to transfer some of the counsellors' tasks to the teachers (Arnold, 1991;Henderson & La Forge, 1989) and, through the creation of peer-counselling programs, to the pupils themselves (Bowman & Myrick, 1984;Canning, 1983;Morey, Miller, Rosen & Fulton, 1993). These approaches exemplify how counsellors adapt themselves to the shifting demands of the school environment and optimise their limited resources (the number of counselling hours), so that as many pupils as possible can reap the benefits of their services.…”

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The effects of counsellor's experience and tendency to elicit disclosure on perceptions of individual counselling in school settings

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1997

Int J Adv Counselling

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Abstraet.To investigate counsellors' perceptions about the counselling of individuals, we collected data from 123 Israeli school counsellors with varying degrees of job experience and tendency to elicit intimate disclosure from others (measured subjectively). In general, in line with previous findings in the American educational system, counsellors reported that pupils approached them mainly in regard to scholastic issues and that time constraints are the main obstacle to performing the task of individual counselling. Moreover, the counsellors' ability to "open up" other people was positively correlated with a tendency to be approached by pupils and with the appraisal of greater pupil needs for individual counselling. Experienced counsellors were more inclined, than less experienced ones, to perceive a greater need by pupils for individual counselling, especially in junior high school students; to consider pupil unwillingness to approach them as a major impediment; to not view individual counselling as a central aspect of their job; and to recommend innovative means of increasing contact with pupils, such as self-presentations in the classroom. The study suggests that time constraints and changing organisational trends are leading counsellors to reassess their roles and images.

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Section: B Dealing With Organisational Constraintsmentioning

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The effects of counsellor's experience and tendency to elicit disclosure on perceptions of individual counselling in school settings

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1997

Int J Adv Counselling

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Students as Peer Helpers: An Untapped Resource

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The effects of counsellor's experience and tendency to elicit disclosure on perceptions of individual counselling in school settings

The effects of counsellor's experience and tendency to elicit disclosure on perceptions of individual counselling in school settings

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