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Development and pilot study of a suicide prevention intervention delivered by peer support specialists. [PDF]

Psychol Serv, 2019
Suicide rates in the United States have been increasing in recent years, and the period after an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization is one of especially high risk for death by suicide. Peer support specialists may play an important role in addressing recommendations that suicide prevention activities focus on protective factors by improving hope and
Pfeiffer PN, King C, Ilgen M, Ganoczy D, Clive R, Garlick J, Abraham K, Kim HM, Vega E, Ahmedani B, Valenstein M.   +10 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Relationship of peer specialists to mental health outcomes in South Florida

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2018
Background In recent years the use of peer specialists in the delivery of mental health of care across the US has increased. Although data on the benefits of using peer specialists is limited and/or equivocal, states are making policy and funding ...
Daniel Castellanos, Mayte Capo, Diana Valderrama, Melissa Jean-Francois, Aniuska Luna   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Additional file 1 of The impact of peer support work on the mental health of peer support specialists

, 2022
Additional file 1. Additional description of the Setting, Sampling and Interview process.
Poremski, Daniel, Kuek, Jonathan Han Loong, Yuan, Qi, Li, Ziqiang, Yow, Kah Lai, Eu, Pui Wai, Chua, Hong Choon   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

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
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Roles of Physical Therapists in Wound Management: Part IV [PDF]

, 2009
Physical therapists are important members of the comprehensive wound management team. In addition to being able to provide standard wound care, they are well prepared to treat wounds with a variety of biophysical agents that introduce electromagnetic ...
Kloth, Luther C.
core   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

“Sometimes you have to take the person and show them how”: adapting behavioral activation for peer recovery specialist-delivery to improve methadone treatment retention

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2023
Background Despite efficacy of medication for opioid use disorder, low-income, ethno-racial minoritized populations often experience poor opioid use disorder treatment outcomes.
Mary B. Kleinman, Morgan S. Anvari, Valerie D. Bradley, Julia W. Felton, Annabelle M. Belcher, C. J. Seitz-Brown, Aaron D. Greenblatt, Dwayne Dean, Melanie Bennett, Jessica F. Magidson   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source