Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directors of Room 166, a peer counseling center that opened this month in the Medical School dorm Vanderbilt Hall, are predicting success for the new program...
...room, which is operated by about 35 student counselors, is open to all Medical School students, Smith said. The counselors underwent a training workshop Labor Day weekend with four undergraduate peer counselors from Johns Hopkins University, she said...
Though similar in name and function to the undergraduate peer counseling service, Room 13, the Medical School group is completely independent of the undergraduate organization, said Jeff L. Greenwald, a Room 166 counselor...
This gap between knowledge and behavior is a major challenge facing AIDS educators, says Richard P. Keeling, chair of the American College Health Association's Task Force on AIDS in Charlottesville, Va. "I suspect any parent or teacher would point to peer pressure, or teens' sense of invulnerability," he says. But there are other important factors. A teenage girl may be too embarrassed to ask her partner to wear a condom. Or a youth might not want to buy condoms because it makes him feel guilty for having sex. Many prefer not to question their partners' sex practices...
...make financial ends meet. They must come down hard on transgressors, give whistle blowers a fair hearing and not stonewall in defense of erring colleagues. And they should discourage the ill-conceived practice of hastily calling press conferences to announce dubious results that have not been verified by peer review...