Psychological assessment tools can help protect children who aretraining as peer mentors, according to research published last week.
Young people at Chilypep, a children and young people's empowermentproject in Sheffield, decided that training as peer mentors would be agood way to help other young people in their area. This followedresearch into the needs of young people. Chilypep teamed up with theirlocal child and adolescent mental health service, based at SheffieldChildren's Hospital Trust, and the voluntary organisation ConflictResolution Education in Sheffield School Training to deliver thetraining.
A psychological assessment tool was used to measure the children'sself-esteem before and after training to be peer mentors. This showedthat all but one of the young people had increased confidence at the endof the training.
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