The Peer Helper's Pocketbook. - book reviews

Adolescence, Winter, 1994

This guide is a quick, easy-to-read peer helping reference written for high school and middle school participants in a peer helping program. Everything a student needs for effective peer helping is included: tips, basic skills, and a review of the issues, such as developing active listening skills, intervening in a crisis, the helper-helpee relationship, suicide, child abuse, death and dying, eating disorders, peer pressure, and substance abuse.

The guide is organized so that it can be used on the spot to look up information or review what to do in certain situations. It reinforces what a student has learned and provides the security of back-up support for those things that were learned but may have been forgotten. A referral section has places where students can record important telephone numbers.