peer counselors
Fellow student helpers
Peer counselors are people who provide guidance and emotional support to others facing similar circumstances—students counseling students, recovering addicts helping those in early recovery, veterans supporting fellow veterans.
The shared experience creates rapport that professional counselors may lack: The campus peer counselors helped freshmen adjust to college life.
Peer counseling programs appear in schools, workplaces, and community organizations.
- mentorsExperienced advisers to learners
- support groupGathering for mutual encouragement
- active listeningFocused, responsive attention to speech
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- listeningAttending to sound
guidance · students · empathy · emotional support · training · confidential · safe space · trust · volunteers · helping · reaching out · advice · crisis · suicide prevention · hotline · youth · talk · understanding
- conflict management in schoolsmediation, de-escalation, conflict resolution, dispute resolution, restorative justice
- peer supportsupport networks, self-help groups, sponsors, sponsorship, buddy system
- healthhealth, wellness, vitality, fitness, well-being
- Online volunteersmoderators, translators, fact checkers, transcribers, proofreaders
peer counselorsclinical psychologists
Mental health treatment specialists
psychiatrists · psychoanalysts · medical doctors · psychiatric nurses
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