Peer Interventions for Health and Wellbeing

This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and wellbeing as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations. It is strongly evidence-based, with chapters discussing reviews of the evidence, followed by important papers with key messages for implementation. Furthermore, it describes implementation and evaluation procedures, both in resource-rich environments and in developing countries. Key Features: - Bridges the traditional gap between professional clinical advice and the "real world", reaching where professionals cannot go - Brings together information about those interventions that are well evidenced - Distils information about how to implement interventions for medical professionals and paraprofessionals and charitable agencies and researchers - Presents a fine balance between research and implementation, with evidence-driven guidance

Keith Topping is Professor of Education at the University of Dundee Scotland and at RUDN University Moscow. He researches peer tutoring and peer assessment, computer assisted learning and assessment, and artificial intelligence. He has over 450 publications in 19 languages, including multi-media in-service training and distance learning packs. He has degrees from the Universities of Sussex, Nottingham and Sheffield, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He was cited as an "outstanding researcher" by President Bill Clinton for his input to the "America Reads" initiative. He was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution to Cooperative Learning Award" by the American Educational Research Association. He has consulted with national government and large organisations in several countries and researches and speaks all over the world. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_James_Topping and https://www.dundee.ac.uk/esw/staff/details/toppingkeith-j-.php#tab-bio

1. Introduction.2 Sexual health.3 HIV/AIDS 4.Cancer 5.Diabetes.6.Neurological, Heart and Other Conditions.7.Mental Health.8.Alcohol abuse.9.Drug use.10.Smoking.11.Obesity and Physical Activity.12.Breast-feeding and Nutrition.13.Prisons 14.Other Areas of Interest.15.Implementation.16.Evaluation. 17.Discussion and Conclusion