La Peer Education

According to the international psychological literature, peer group education is a powerful tool which can efficiently contribute to the promotion of healthy behaviors and psychological wellbeing. It works empowering valuable life skills (WHO) and applying horizontal communication models, in order to attribute to the target groups an active role in their change processes. The present article represents a review of the most important psychological studies demonstrating the efficacy of this strategy in social interventions devoted to prevent high-risk behaviors (as drug and alcohol addictions),.