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The PLISSIT MODEL & Peer Health Interns

Peer Health interns receive information about health that is available to all students through the peer health internship, other student health classes, or through their own personal growth efforts. The PLISSIT Model, adapted from Jack Anon, illustrates how they are to use this information.

  • Permission


  • Limited
  • Information


  • Specific
  • Suggestions


  • Intensive
  • Therapy


It is an intern's role to give permission to others to be who they are. This is done by supporting their peer's self-awareness, self-esteem, and personal values and by increasing their respect for others.

It is also an intern's role to provide limited information that is developmentally relevant to other students since many will be challenged by similar issues.

It is NOT an intern's role to make specific suggestions. If a student brings up a personal problem that is beyond the limit of their information, interns refer them to the right resource to help them solve it.

It is NOT an intern's role to provide intensive therapy. Interns refer students needing short or long-term guidance with a personal problem to the right resources.