The helping community: Issues in the evaluation of a preventive intervention to promote informal helping
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Community Psychology
- Vol. 10 (3), 199-209
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6629(198207)10:3<199::aid-jcop2290100302>3.0.co;2-a
Abstract
This report addresses conceptual and practical problems in evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention which used a pyramid training model for improving helping skills for informal helpers in two rural communities. Against a background for a study of help-giving and help-seeking patterns, the transmission of helping skills from professional to community trainers to local helpers was studied. Impacts of the intervention on other aspects of the community are reported.Keywords
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