Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions

Paul Antwi,Bernice Ofosuhene S Peasah,Victoria De-Graft Adjei,Joana Hackman,Stephen Jantuah,Frances Emily Owusu-Ansah

doi:10.47127/ijtmr.v6i2.127

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This paper is about the KNUST Peer Counsellors Program (KPC); an initiative of the KNUST Counselling Center (KCC). Over the years, the number of Peer Counsellors has increased. Students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have likewise increased. The aim of the paper was basically to examine the impact of the peer counselling experience on the students who volunteer to be trained and serve as Peer Counsellors. To the best of our knowledge, no study as yet has examined impact of peer counselling among university students in Ghana. Yet, we believe it is a program worth further exploration and development to equip the youth with altruistic values. Reports from the Peer Counsellors affirm the positive impact of the experience on their lives as young people. It projects a viable developmental pathway, career wise, for some of them aside the promotion of own and others wellbeing. Administrative and functional structure of the KPC is described in the paper and recommended as a program for other tertiary institutions to augment formation and education of students.  Citation:Owusu-Ansah, F. E., Peasah, O. S. B., De-Graft Adjei, V., Jantuah, S. and Hackman, J. (2021). Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions. International Journal of Technology and Management Research (IJTMR), Vol. 6 (2): Pp.73-80. Received: January 3, 2021Accepted: September 1, 2021

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Peer counselling is a process whereby someone listens and provides emotional support to another who shares same status characteristics or demographics
The aims of this paper are twofold: one, to describe the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counsellors Program, and two, assess its impact on the peer counsellors; hopeful that the preliminary findings would present it as a model for other tertiary institutions in the country and beyond
Each college has a College Counsellor assigned from the KNUST Counselling Center (KCC) which provides psychological support services to students and staff

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Peer counselling is a process whereby someone listens and provides emotional support to another who shares same status characteristics or demographics (e.g., student to student, patient to patient). Challenging and Changing Lives: The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Peer Counseling Program, a Model for Tertiary Institutions. U. (2021), Peer Counselling is a program designed to provide a learning experience for students in carrying out counselling support services to their colleagues which are expected to increase students' self-confidence in participating in the counsellor's workforce.

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