The Application Of Peer Counseling In Individual Counseling

Peer Counseling is the process of helping a friend style and persistent accompany. Itscommittee members is these people who have a certain psychological qualities and areinterested in serving others. Through the passage of expertise and training in counseling skillsand other content serializations, they can provide emotional support, comfort, emotional,positive encouragement people with a general mental confusion, at the same time changingtheir cognitive and behavior. Peer Counseling’s appearance reduce the conflict that the largepsychology’s needs and the services’ lack. And the practical research shows that: The biggestadvantage of Peer Counseling psychology is the trust and friendship between the visitors andconsultants, both sides have small natural gulf, commonality large, highly interactive. Thusgreatly reduces the visitors defensive, and can effectively reduce the risk of impedanceoccurred. Peer counselor can easily understand the true feelings and thoughts when thecounselor and visitor can keep close. Therefore, Peer Counseling is more and more be used bythe mental health education in colleges and universities. But previous studies show that PeerCounseling still prevalents some problem on work practice, and mainly engages in PeerCounseling staff whose professional quality is not very high. So this paper hopes to provide aspecific, detailed and situational experience, which provides a help to peer counselors toimprove their counseling skills.In the process of research, the methods are literature review and case study. Itstheoretical basis is the humanism. Using the peer counseling owns advantage to create a good"psychological atmosphere", gives visitors a sincere, unconditional respect and accurateempathy. Ultimately we achieve the purpose that mobilizes the visitors themselves potential tosolve themselves problems.The article is mainly studied from the following five parts in this project:The first part is the introduction: It mainly explains the selected reason of the paper,relevant research present situation and trend at home and abroad, research methods, ideas andinnovations of this paper.The second part is the summary of Peer Counseling: Through the method of consultingliterature, it makes the concrete expression to Peer Counseling Theory, definition,classification and quality requirements, also emphasizes the connection of peer characteristics and psychological counseling. Counselor can more easily create a good "psychologicalatmosphere" to give visitors a sincere, unconditional respect and accurate empathy, because ofpeer relationship.The third part is peer counselor’s attitude and basic skills in the consulting: This sectionwill focus on the introduction that as a peer counselor should have some of the basicprofessional quality and basic skills, because Peer counselor is short of professional. I hope tohave a certain reference on the peer counselor training in the future.The fourth part is Peer Counseling case: This part is the core part of the paper.Consultant makes it detail through a case study: senior in high school with interpersonalsensitive and not confident, ultimately achieves the desired effect of consulting, through theestablishment of peer relationship and the implementation of psychological counseling.The fifth part is analysis, summary and suggestions: The paper carries on the overallinterpretation and reflection to the case, affirms the effect of peer counseling and significanceof this study, and also puts forward some opinions and suggestions on training peer counselorwork in the future.