It is a new attempt to carry out peer counseling for scholastic mental health education in our country.

To carry out the activities of peer counseling effectively, peer counselors are requested not only to acquire a certain amount of psychological counseling knowledge and skills, but also have a good psychological quality.

The paper presents college peer counselors\' important role in college students\' daily ideological and political education.

This article discusses the positive function of peer counselors for solving adaptability problems of college freshmen,and the work of selection,training,distribution and evaluation of peer counselor is talked about as well.

This article first overviews the meaning and the feature of the peer counseling,and then it analyzes the feasibility and the necessity of carrying out the peer counseling in the university,finally it proposes hierarchical psychological mutual aid based on the psychological development characteristics of the college students.

As a new model of counseling,peer counseling have many good effects,such as enrich counselors,all-round counseling,and so on.

In view of the fact that the mental problem has been serious among college students and that traditional psycho-logical counseling model is out of date,peer counseling arises as a new model that can be conveniently practiced and widely used in colleges.

While peer counseling instructors can take the advantages of the directness of information getting,the simplicity of communication,and the flexibility of crisis intervention to participate in the various stages of psychological cris.