Fostering Total Wellness through Peer Helping: Reflections on the SMU Experiences

• Main Authors: TAN, Gilbert, HSI, Timothy
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Peer helping; Total Wellness; Higher Education; Singapore Management University; Asian Studies; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Student Counseling and Personnel Services
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2844; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/3843/viewcontent/PeerHelpingpaper_taiwan3a.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Peer Helping is widely implemented in Colleges and Universities in the United States and Canada. Despite the popularity of these programs, very little has been researched on peer helping in the Asian context. This paper traces the theoretical foundations of peer helping and the nascent development o...