Colleges and universities to explore the peer counseling.doc

Colleges and universities to explore the peer counseling [Abstract] In recent years, as China’s growing number of colleges and universities, the continual emergence of psychological problems, peer counseling and more attention, psychological counseling of college is becoming a new way the article for peer counseling an overview of the characteristics of peer counseling on the basis of analysis of peer counseling necessity and feasibility of peer counseling on how to improve the effectiveness of the work made feasible suggestions. [Keywords:] the feasibility of peer counseling effectiveness An overview of peer counseling Peer counseling, mental health is a special form of education, originated in the 1960s the United States, mental health education practice, it is received professional training or supervision of students, language and non-verbal way, for age , the status of the recipients to provide a considerable psychological education, regulation, or advisory function of the interpersonal helping process. peers, including the “friends” and “peers” of the double meaning of “peer” refers to the same age or age-matched persons, They usually share common values, experience and lifestyle, age-similar or the same concerns and so on. Students peer counseling is essentially a non-professional counseling activities, and professional counseling and treatment efforts than in the objectives, requirements, methods, there are big differences, it is precisely these features and advantages of the psychological make peer counseling has a strong practical and promotional value, on the whole it has the following three characteristics: 1. Quasi-professional Peer counselors are not professional psychological counseling, is also not completely match the true sense of psychological counseling, but they also go through more rigorous training and supervision, psychological counseling to understand and master the basic principles and general skills, interpersonal