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Volunteers with systemic lupus erythematosus were recruited for a telephone service to provide psychosocial support to peers. The volunteers attended an &week counselor training program. The aim was to !evaluate the impact of the training on counselors' skill ldevelopment and to record possible changes in the counselors' psychosocial status. A second group of trainees [n = 35) was used as a delayed control for the first group [n = 14). D 1993 by the Arthritis Foundation. development included the Carkhuff Communications and Discrimination Skills Inventories and the Applied Knowledge Assessment scale. The latter was developed in-house and tested for reliability. Only the Carkhiiff Communications Skills [P < 0.001) and the Applied Knowledge Assessment [P < 0.001) showed significant changes pre-and post-test within subjects. These results persisted at the 6-month level.