Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five organizations--Room 13, Peer Contraceptive Counseling, Response, Contact, and EPO--have since been established to advise students on specific issues, including sexual harassment and sexual orientation...
...visitors showed greatest interest in the daily issues peer counseling groups face. "They were interested to see how we deal with a problem often stigmatized," Smith said...
Smith said their greatest concern was "how we keep from becoming therapists." To prevent peer counselors from assuming the roles of therapist and psychiatrist, EPO counselors meet with UHS or the Bureau of Study Counsel weekly, reviewing the week's activity, Smith said...
...Peer counseling groups will only listen and give information when asked, and will otherwise refer patients to proper medical attention. "It's not our role to make decisions for people," she said...
...solves this by placing such students in administrative and organizational positions, which are equally important to the success of peer counseling, she said...