Peer Counseling or Peer Support—There is a Difference

1994 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Carter ◽  
Henry L. Janzen
Keyword(s):  
Peer Support ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Peer Counseling ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Counseling Programs ◽  
Peer Helping ◽  
Program Selection ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Training Need

The purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of a peer helping program in a high school setting. Opinions were obtained from students, staff, peer support members, their parents, and their “clients.” A large sample was obtained for the general student survey (204 students, or 73% of the student population). The results validated the basic assumptions on which peer helping programs are founded, namely, that students most often seek out other students for help with problems and that students are thought to be capable of providing help for their peers. The results indicate that although students have confidence in one another for helping, few students said they would seek help with a problem from a peer counselor. It is thought that existing peer counseling programs are perhaps too small to adequately represent all peer groups within the school and that attempts should be made to expand membership in the program in order to reach more students. It was also indicated that students have greater confidence in a peer's ability for helping with school and relationship problems, whereas less confidence was shown for dealing with problems of a more serious nature such as suicide, death, and pregnancy. This point emphasizes the difference between peer counseling and “professional” counseling programs. It is proposed that for peer helping programs to grow the distinction between support and counseling become clear in the minds of those running the program and that alternate methods for program selection and training need to be explored.

scholarly journals Career maturity among gifted and talented students in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.10) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Mohd Hakimie Zainal Abidin ◽  
Salleh Amat ◽  
Mhd Subhan ◽  
Mohd Izwan Mahmud ◽  
Sallehuddin Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Career Maturity ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Guidance And Counseling ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Regular Students

Career maturity is one of the crucial element for students in the school setting. Career maturity is vital for students to discover their knowledge about their future professions. For gifted and talented students, they may advance from the regular students in discovering their future jobs. This study focusing on career maturity among gifted and talented students in Malaysia. The level of career maturity is measured by the researcher by using Career Maturity Inventory (CMI)-Revised 1995. This research involved 2500 respondents around Malaysia, focusing on boarding schools’ students. The descriptive statistical analysis is used to present the demographic data involving gender, the level of education, and family income of the respondents.  The main finding of this research indicates the difference in career maturity between respondents (gifted and talented students) and the regular students. The implications of this research are discussed especially in terms of guidance and counseling provision in boarding school. 

scholarly journals Pragmatic Effectiveness of the Loving Support Peer Counseling Program to Increase Breastfeeding Duration Among Nevada WIC Participants

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen See ◽  
Julie Smith-Gagen ◽  
Robin Hollen ◽  
Larissa L. White ◽  
Elizabeth J. Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Peer Counseling ◽  
Breastfeeding Duration ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
New Mothers ◽  
Counseling Programs ◽  
Breastfeeding Cessation ◽  
Intervention Trials

Peer counseling programs are increasingly popular, and intervention trials have established efficacy. However, pragmatic, real-world effectiveness of peer counseling programs are limited, but necessary, to justify funding. This study examined the effectiveness of the Loving Support Peer Counseling (LSPC) program to increase breastfeeding duration and reasons for cessation among Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants. In a sample of 178 WIC participants, new mothers who received LSPC breastfed for an average of 8.6 weeks longer relative to mothers who did not receive LSPC (p < .001). Although all mothers cited concerns about infants'’ nutritional uptake, WIC mothers who did not receive LSPC reported frustration as the reason for breastfeeding cessation. This study supports the pragmatic, real-world effectiveness of LSPC among WIC mothers.

scholarly journals EVALUASI PELAKSANAAN HOME VISIT DI SMP

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Bernardinus Agus Arswimba
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Model Evaluation ◽  
Home Visit ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Performance Standards ◽  
Professional Counselor ◽  
The Difference

ABSTRACT Home visit is a responsive service that is urgent, so it needs to be implemented immediately to help students solve problems faced. If home visit is not done well, the problem will have a more complex impact on students. The purpose of the study was to determine the performance of counselors according to or not with the standards and professional counselor evaluation criteria for Comprehensive (Evaluation Model South Carolina) counseling guidance to make decisions or follow-up the programs that have been implemented. The research method used is descriptive evaluation using the Model Evaluation Discrepancy. This model measures the difference between performance standards and real conditions that have been implemented. The instrument of this research is using questionnaires and interviews. The results showed that home visits conducted by counselors at Santa Maria Malang Middle School in the category "close from standard". Keywords: home visit, model evaluation discrepancy

scholarly journals Educated Choices Program: An Impact Evaluation of a Classroom Intervention to Reduce Animal Product Consumption

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher John Bryant ◽  
Courtney Dillard
Keyword(s):  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Strong Basis ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Survey Responses

In this comprehensive evaluation of Educated Choices Program’s educational intervention, we report on our analysis of 95,241 student survey responses. We are excited to share these findings for a number of reasons. First and foremost, our analysis clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of this educational intervention in positively impacting student attitudes, behavioral intentions and self-reported behaviors in regard to their food choices. The scale of the dataset and the comprehensive nature of the analyses conducted provides a strong basis for funding considerations for educational interventions. This is particularly heartening because similar impacts have been difficult to find in other consumer-facing advocacy interventions. As will be highlighted later in the report, ECP’s model of intervention is both high quality and cost effective, allaying some fears about the feasibility of deploying effective interventions of this nature on a large scale.

scholarly journals A Novel Hybrid Fuzzy Grey TOPSIS Method: Supplier Evaluation of a Collaborative Manufacturing Enterprise

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixiong Feng ◽  
Zhifeng Zhang ◽  
Guangdong Tian ◽  
Amir Mohammad Fathollahi-Fard ◽  
Nannan Hao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Supplier Evaluation ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprise ◽  
Collaborative Manufacturing ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Order Preference ◽  
The Difference

Recently, there is of significant interest in developing multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques with large applications for real-life problems. Making a reasonable and accurate decision on MCDM problems can help develop enterprises better. The existing MCDM methods, such as the grey comprehensive evaluation (GCE) method and the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS), have their one-sidedness and shortcomings. They neither consider the difference of shape and the distance of the evaluation sequence of alternatives simultaneously nor deal with the interaction that universally exists among criteria. Furthermore, some enterprises cannot consult the best professional expert, which leads to inappropriate decisions. These reasons motivate us to contribute a novel hybrid MCDM technique called the grey fuzzy TOPSIS (FGT). It applies fuzzy measures and fuzzy integral to express and integrate the interaction among criteria, respectively. Fuzzy numbers are employed to help the experts to make more reasonable and accurate evaluations. The GCE method and the TOPSIS are combined to improve their one-sidedness. A case study of supplier evaluation of a collaborative manufacturing enterprise verifies the effectiveness of the hybrid method. The evaluation result of different methods shows that the proposed approach overcomes the shortcomings of GCE and TOPSIS. The proposed hybrid decision-making model provides a more accurate and reliable method for evaluating the fuzzy system MCDM problems with interaction criteria.

scholarly journals Understanding the Legendary Sound Environment in the Lobby of Hotel Okura Tokyo

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 4552
Author(s):  
Ryoko Nojima ◽  
Natsuko Sugie ◽  
Akira Taguchi ◽  
Jun Kokubo
Keyword(s):  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Noise Levels ◽  
Sound Environment ◽  
Good Reputation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Hotel Lobbies

The main lobby of Hotel Okura Tokyo has a good reputation for its sound environment, which affects the conversations of its users. We assumed that the lobby’s reputation was related to its speech intelligibility. In this study, first, the sound during hotel operations was measured to see if there was a difference in the sound environment between the lobby and the entrance hall. As a result, we clarified that the difference in noise levels affected by the degree of crowdedness of the room was smaller in the lobby than in the other rooms. Subsequently, the indoor noise and speech intelligibility were measured to clarify the correspondence of intelligibility with the lobby’s reputation. As a result, the indoor noise was found to be at a level suitable for hotel lobbies and the intelligibility was good. A comprehensive evaluation that included the results of other acoustical surveys revealed that the lobby of Okura is a space that is suitable for conversations, corresponding to the opinions of users.

Primary Pulmonary Acinic Cell Carcinoma: A Clinicopathological Study of 6 Cases and Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 584-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Nie ◽  
Chunlei Zhou ◽  
Hongyan Wu ◽  
Qiang Zhou ◽  
Fanqing Meng
Keyword(s):  
Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Clinicopathological Features ◽  
Acinic Cell Carcinoma ◽  
Mitotic Figure ◽  
Neoplastic Cells ◽  
Acinic Cell ◽  
S 100 ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Right

Primary pulmonary acinic cell carcinoma (ACC) is rare. The clinicopathological features are not identical to that of classic ACC that leads to misdiagnosis. In this article, we summarized the clinicopathological features of 25 such cases, including 6 cases in this series and additional 19 cases in the literature. Pulmonary ACCs showed an overwhelming solid growth pattern. The neoplastic cells had eosinophilic granular and clear cytoplasm in most cases and displayed basophilic cytoplasm in only 4 cases. Intratumoral fibrous septa, mitotic figure, necrosis, and psammoma bodies were observed in some cases. Prominent nuclear atypia and perineural invasion might suggest high-grade transformation, metastasis, and recurrence. The tumor cells were strongly positive for CK8/18 and negative for TTF-1, p63, S-100, mammaglobin, MUC5b, MUC5ac, and DOG1. CK7 was exclusively positive for neoplastic cells with ductal differentiation. Of the 25 included cases, 10 cases were initially misdiagnosed. The tumor was prone to involve the right bronchus. The patient outcome was favorable. The accurate diagnosis of primary pulmonary ACC relies on comprehensive evaluation of histological and immunohistochemical features and realization of the difference from classic ACC.

scholarly journals Traffic Status Dynamic Evaluation of an Eight-Lane Highway Based on the Lane Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Jiayan Shen ◽  
Xiucheng Guo ◽  
Yiming Zhang ◽  
Meina Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Service Level ◽  
State Evaluation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Operation Status ◽  
And Control ◽  
Traffic Operation ◽  
Highway Management

Traffic status analysis is the basis for highway management and control. Most of the previous research studies were carried out from the perspective of road segments. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the difference in traffic operation characteristics of an eight-lane highway from the perspective of lanes. Lane saturation, average lane speed, and lane density were selected as traffic state evaluation indicators, and the concept of state space division was introduced to classify the traffic operation status of each lane. Then, a single-system multi-index dynamic comprehensive evaluation method was adopted to reflect the time-varying characteristics and the development trend of the operation status of each lane. The research results can provide the theoretical support for more refined highway management and improve the service level of the eight-lane highway.

The Comprehensive Evaluation for Nuclear Facility Decommissioning Scheme Based on AHP-DEA Method

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Bai ◽  
Yong-kuo Liu ◽  
Nan Chao
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Nuclear Facility ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Program Selection ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
Scheme Selection ◽  
Selection Of

In view of the lack of research on decommissioning scheme selection of nuclear facilities and the inability to directly use the evaluation model of existing non-radioactive environment construction schemes. In this paper, propose a task analytic method in radiation field based on AHP-DEA model, which takes accomplishment the task safety as the decision-making target. The evaluation model can both reflect the decision preference of experts and improve the rationality of evaluation by mathematical calculation. The experimental results show that the proposed model has obvious advantages for program selection and can be applied to the evaluation and optimization of decommissioning scheme.

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