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A senior peer counseling program
— evaluation of training and benefits to counselors | | Author(s) | Yolanda E Garcia, Arlene Metha, Maureen C Perfect |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 4, June 1997 |
| Pages | pp 329-344 |
| Keywords | Advisory services [elderly] ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Training [welfare work] ; Depression ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study focuses on older people experiencing depression, suicidal feelings, and other emotional crises who had been selected for a senior peer counselling programme. External evaluators used quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the programme. Counsellors assessed with mild levels of depression at pre-test scored in the normal range at post-test, and reported a lower number of depressive symptoms. The ratings ascribed to the training components were consistently positive. The qualitative component included individual interviews to assess counsellors' perceptions of the training programme, the groups, their clients, and their roles as counsellors. A content analysis revealed personal experience as the dominant theme, the components of which were categorised as the training experience, the group experience, experiencing the first client, and experiencing the 'self as counsellor'. Self-confidence and self-efficacy were the main benefits of the training and counselling experience. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971030233 A |
| Classmark | IT: GHH: QW: ENR: 4C: 7T |
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