Female Adolescents Counseling Female Adolescents: A First Step in Emotional Crisis Intervention.

Strip, Carol; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ430005

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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ISSN: ISSN-0278-3193

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Female Adolescents Counseling Female Adolescents: A First Step in Emotional Crisis Intervention.

Strip, Carol; And Others

Roeper Review, v13 n3 p124-28 Apr 1991

The article describes the implementation of Immediate Strategic Intervention, a counseling strategy which utilizes trained adolescent female friends to help during the first 24 hours of an emotional crisis (e.g., potential suicide). Middle school adolescents can be taught basic psychological concepts and utilize them in supporting friends and linking them to professional services. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Crisis Intervention, Emotional Problems, Females, Friendship, Helping Relationship, Peer Counseling, Prevention, Secondary Education, Suicide

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Counselors; Practitioners

Language: English

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