The helping community: issues in the evaluation of a preventive intervention to promote informal helping.
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.
D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012424:Rural Population; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D000078329:Workforce