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Volunteer training: Increasing facilitative and reducing inappropriate action responding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2015

R.D. Christian  and
J.J. Jupp
R.D. Christian
Affiliation:
private practice
J.J. Jupp
Affiliation:
Counsellor Training Courses, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University
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Abstract

It is likely that volunteer helpers in many community health programs have an inappropriate action-oriented or advice-giving approach to helping. This orientation promotes contradictions between aims and practice when the former has to do with prevention and reduces the effectiveness of programs. This paper evaluates a training program designed to remove the ambiguity between helping role and service delivery in volunteers about to work with adolescents. This was done by training to increase the tendency to respond in facilitative and to decrease the tendency to respond in action-oriented ways. Changes in tendencies pre- to post-training using this different from usual approach suggest that it was highly successful.

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Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools , Volume 1 , November 1991 , pp. 43 - 50
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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