Abstract
I examine the status of "The Sick child Peer-Counseling project", which the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and an NPO have undertaken since 2005. Peer-counseling, a practice that began in Europe and America in the 20th century is performed by a person who has been through The experience similar to the client's. The mothers who became peer counselor had been deprived of sympathy in everyday life with the parents who did not have the sickness and the trouble. These deprived experiences appear to be a common one in the context of peer-counseling. At the same time, the individuality in the situation and the target is clarified. This does not lead to a sense of alienation, but one of the mutual interests because the peer counselor and the client are interested in each other's situation. In addition, this led to the case where one individual would emphasis their way against that of the other's. In this manner, double individuality is concomitant. As not a professional worker but one mother, the peer-counselor that attended the two-days course is existence, and an amateur consciously of commonness and individual of the experience who it is an amateur and is not the lay and not the specialist. Thus, peer counseling is based on such "amateurism"
