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By taking advantage of its resources, students already prepared to do counseling, an academic department has used a peer counseling program to conserve faculty time, improve the dissemination of information, and provide significant interpersonal contact for undergraduate students. Careful selection and synergic supervision have resulted in performance and commitment from the peer counselors. Their efforts have been evaluated positively by student consumers and faculty.
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She teaches and supervises graduate students in counseling, teaches humanistic psychology, and supervises the academic peer counseling program.
He was a peer counselor at the University of West Florida for two years.
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Privette, G., Delawder, J.E. Academic peer counseling: Advising with a personal touch. Int J Adv Counselling 5, 109–114 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00119091
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