ABSTRACT
First published in 1990. This book includes a program for peers helping peers at the pre-adolescent stage. It provides information for peer helpers to learn helping skills; be a special friend to others; become an effective helper; share with others and show they care. It will introduce skills such as getting acquainted, the helping process; caring- listening with your body; empathy; the 'I' message, helpful questioning; conflict resolution; decision-making and goal setting and putting peer helping into action.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |186 pages
Learning Activities
chapter |20 pages
Getting Acquainted
chapter |1 pages
Activity 1.1 Warm Up to Getting Acquainted
chapter |3 pages
Activity 1.2 Getting Acquainted
chapter |1 pages
Activity 1.3 Brag Bag
chapter |1 pages
Activity 1.4 Creating a Great Group
chapter |2 pages
Activity 1.5 Peak Experience in and/or Outside of School
chapter |2 pages
Activity 1.6 We all Have Had Succes
chapter |1 pages
Activity 1.7 What Worries Me the Most
chapter |1 pages
Activity 1.8 Self-commercial
chapter |2 pages
Activity 1.9 Body Tracing
chapter |2 pages
Activity 1.10 Sharing Topics
chapter |2 pages
Activity 1.11 Self-inventory of Getting along with Others
chapter |20 pages
Helping Process Skills
chapter |1 pages
Activity 2.1 How Others Help Me
chapter |2 pages
Imagery Experience a Picture of Someone Helping Me
chapter |2 pages
Activity 2.2 Who Cares for Me
chapter |2 pages
Activity 2.3 Understanding How I Help
chapter |2 pages
People I Have Helped and My Feelings
chapter |3 pages
Activity 2.4 Self-inventory of Helping Skills
chapter |3 pages
Activity 2.5 My Contract for Learning Helping Skills
chapter |1 pages
Activity 3.1 Body Language Warm-up
chapter |3 pages
Activity 3.2 What Others Communicate through Body Language
chapter |1 pages
Activity 3.3 Tune in to Others
chapter |2 pages
Activity 3.4 Comparing Nonattending to Attending
chapter |1 pages
Activity 3.5 Practice Effective Attending
chapter |1 pages
Observer Feedback Form
chapter |3 pages
Activity 3.6 Communication and Listening
chapter |40 pages
Empathy Skills
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.1 The Rumor Game
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.2 Learning to Paraphrase Meaning
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.3 Learning to Paraphrase Feelings
chapter |1 pages
Activity 4.4 The World is a Stage
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.5 Rolling the Feeling Box
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.6 Assessing the Feeling of Happiness
chapter |1 pages
Year 'Round Happiness
chapter |1 pages
Activity 4.7 Feeling Happy
chapter |1 pages
Activity 4.8 Practicing Being Happy
chapter |1 pages
Activity 4.9 Steps to Happiness
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.10 Assessing the Feeling of Sadness.
chapter |3 pages
Sadness Causes Ones I Can and Cant Control
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.11 Solutions for Coping with My Sadness
chapter |1 pages
Activity 4.12 Learning to Read People's Sad Expressions
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.13 Easing Sadness in Self and Others
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.14 Recognizeng Anger
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.15 Dealing With Anger
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.16 Learning to Face Fears
chapter |2 pages
Activity 4.17 Putting Meaning and Feeling Responses Together
chapter |14 pages
Sending “I” Messages Skills
chapter |2 pages
Activity 5.3 Assertive Posturing
chapter |2 pages
Activity 5.4 Sending “I” Messages
chapter |2 pages
Activity 5.5 Practicing “I” Messages
chapter |8 pages
Helpful Questioning Skills
chapter |2 pages
Activity 6.1 Learning About Helpful Questioning
chapter |2 pages
Activity 6.2 Open Questions
chapter |1 pages
Activity 6.3 Practice Open Questioning
chapter |1 pages
Observation Sheet
chapter |26 pages
Conflict Resolving Skills
chapter |2 pages
Activity 7.1 Introduction to Solving Conflict
chapter |1 pages
Conflict: My Actions and Feelings
chapter |3 pages
Activity 7.2 Getting Attention
chapter |2 pages
Activity 7.3 What Role are You?
chapter |2 pages
Activity 7.4 The Seesaw Game
chapter |4 pages
Activity 7.5 Relaxation and Imagery Experience
chapter |3 pages
Activity 7.6 Changing Negative Thoughts into Positives
chapter |3 pages
Activity 7.7 Cancelling Negative Thoughts
chapter |2 pages
Activity 7.8 Conflict Stoppers
chapter |2 pages
Getting Along With Others
chapter |29 pages
Decision-Making and Goal-Setting Skills
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.1 Making Decisions with Clay
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.2 A Fixed Choice Game
chapter |2 pages
Activity 8.3 Decision Point
chapter |2 pages
Activity 8.4 Predicting Consequences
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.5 Choices
chapter |1 pages
What do I Value?
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.6 Finding Words to Express Value
chapter |1 pages
Finding Words to Express Value
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.7 Making Decisions
chapter |1 pages
Typical Decisions
chapter |2 pages
Activity 8.8 Decision Making
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.9 Relating Values to Decisions
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.10 Recognizing Goals and Responsibilities
chapter |1 pages
Activity 8.11 Wish Upon a Star
chapter |1 pages
My Goal, Related Values, and Decisions I have Made
chapter |2 pages
Activity 8.12 Once Upon a Time
chapter |2 pages
Activity 8.13 Memory Line
chapter |2 pages
Activity 8.14 Putting Decision Making into Action
chapter |3 pages
Activity 8.15 Goal Setting
chapter |10 pages
Putting Peer-Helping Skills into Action
chapter |2 pages
Activity 9.1 Things to Think About
chapter |2 pages
Activity 9.2 Guidelines
chapter |2 pages
Activity 9.3 Peer Helper's Guide for Knowing Limits
chapter |2 pages
Activity 9.4 What can i do?
part |38 pages
Application of Skills