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From Social Network to Peer Support Network: Opportunities to Explore Mechanisms of Online Peer Support for Mental Health [PDF]

, 2023
An increasing number of psychological interventions are shifting to online modes of delivery. One such intervention is peer-to-peer support, which in this context may provide internet users living with mental health disorders an opportunity to connect ...
Andrews, Jacob, Rayland, Amy
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Co-production development of a decision support tool for peers and service users to choose technologies to support recovery

Patient Experience Journal, 2021
Peer support specialists (i.e., lay interventionists representing one of the fastest-growing mental health workforce) are increasingly using technologies to support individuals with mental health challenges between clinical encounters.
Mbita Mbao, Yaara Zisman Ilani, Ali Gold, Amanda Myers, Robert Walker, Karen Fortuna   +5 more
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Results of a pilot randomised controlled trial to measure the clinical and cost effectiveness of peer support in increasing hope and quality of life in mental health patients discharged from hospital in the UK [PDF]

, 2014
Background Mental health patients can feel anxious about losing the support of staff and patients when discharged from hospital and often discontinue treatment, experience relapse and readmission to hospital, and sometimes attempt suicide.
Susan Henry, Rowe, Julie, Quigley, J, Len Bowers, Alan Simpson, Evans, R, Evans, R., Simpson, A, Flood, C., Hall, Cerdic, Flood, C, Quigley, J., Simpson, Alan, Bowers, L., Julie Rowe, Sherman, Paul, Paul Sherman, Simpson, Alan; id_orcid, Sherman, P, Rowe, J., Cerdic Hall, Quigley, Jody, Henry, S., Henry, Susan, Chris Flood, Rowe, J, Jody Quigley, Richard Evans, Flood, Chris, Bowers, Len, Evans, Richard, Hall, C., Henry, S, Sherman, P., Hall, C, Bowers, L, Simpson, A.   +36 more
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Online peer support training to promote adolescents’ emotional support skills, mental health and agency during COVID-19: Randomised controlled trial and qualitative evaluation [PDF]

, 2022
Adolescents often look to their peers for emotional support, so it is critical that they are prepared to take on a supportive role, especially during a health crisis.
Reardon, Tessa, Power, Lucy, Ellie Brooks-Hall, Brooks-Hall, Ellie, Gabriela Pavarini, Lawrance, Emma, Lewis, Peter, Singh, Ilina, Maia Rogers, Ilina Singh, Hollowell, Anja, Emma Lawrance, Lucy Power, Vanessa Pinfold, Foster-Estwick, Ashley, Pinfold, Vanessa, Bennett, Vanessa, Ashley Foster-Estwick, Vanessa Bennett, Tessa Reardon, Damian Omari Juma, Rogers, Maia, Juma, Damian Omari, Anja Hollowell, Pavarini, Gabriela, Peter Lewis   +25 more
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Online social support: an exploratory study of breastfeeding women’s use of internet and mobile applications to obtain peer support [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Online social support is reported to be used by a number of people to obtain social interaction and exchange communication as a way to buffer stressful ...
Burman, Ana Beatriz Santana
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Using peer workers with lived experience to support the treatment of borderline personality disorder: a qualitative study of consumer, carer and clinician perspectives

Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2020
Background Peer support is a recovery oriented approach where consumers and carers are introduced to people with lived experience of the disorder who have recovered. Paid roles within health services for such consumer peer workers and carer peer workers (
Karlen R. Barr, Michelle L. Townsend, Brin F. S. Grenyer   +2 more
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Suicide Prevention by Peers Offering Recovery Tactics (SUPPORT) for US Veterans With Serious Mental Illness: Community Engagement Approach

Journal of Participatory Medicine
BackgroundPeer specialists are hired, trained, and accredited to share their lived experience of psychiatric illness to support other similar individuals through the recovery process.
Samantha A Chalker, Jesus Serafez, Yuki Imai, Jeffrey Stinchcomb, Estefany Mendez, Colin A Depp, Elizabeth W Twamley, Karen L Fortuna, Marianne Goodman, Matthew Chinman   +9 more
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The essential necessity to invest in the cultivation of peer recovery specialists as organizational leaders [PDF]

PSU Research Review
Purpose – The emergence of COVID-19 has exacerbated and spurred the growth of mental health issues in ways that have challenged mental health workers tremendously.
Traci Carrano Jones, Darrell Norman Burrell   +1 more
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Competing allegiance in an unclear role: Peer and non-peer understanding of peer support in Massachusetts, United States

SSM - Mental Health, 2023
Lack of role clarity is a central challenge to the growth and retention of the peer workforce as peer support specialists (PSS) increasingly work alongside non-peer providers in traditional mental healthcare settings.
Wallis E. Adams, Ryan Duquette, Anneliese de Wet, E. Sally Rogers   +3 more
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metapsy-project/data-peer-support: Version 23.0.2

, 2023
The data-peer-support dataset The data-peer-support dataset is a meta-analytic research domain MARD) which is part of the Metapsy project. The dataset contains study information and effect size data of randomized trials on peer support interventions ...
Clara Miguel, Mathias Harrer
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