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Strategies and Lessons Learned for Supporting and Supervising Peer Specialists [PDF]

Psychiatric Services, 2021
As peer-delivered services are increasingly embedded within behavioral health organizations, a need has arisen to identify practices that facilitate supervision and support of peer providers. The authors present supervision strategies and lessons learned that emerged during a large pragmatic trial in three supportive housing agencies that examined a ...
Ana, Stefancic, Lauren, Bochicchio, Daniela, Tuda, Yonnie, Harris, Kendra, DeSomma, Leopoldo J, Cabassa   +5 more
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Results From the POINT Pragmatic Randomized Trial: An Emergency Department-Based Peer Support Specialist Intervention to Increase Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Linkage and Reduce Recurrent Overdose [PDF]

Subst Use Addctn J
Dennis P Watson, Martha Tillson, Lisa Taylor   +2 more
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Service-level barriers to and facilitators of access to services for the treatment of alcohol use disorder and problematic alcohol use: protocol for a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, substance use health services for treatment of alcohol use disorder and problematic alcohol use (AUD/PAU) were fragmented and challenging to access. The pandemic magnified system weaknesses, often resulting in
Brian Hutton, Kimberly Corace, Becky Skidmore, Justin Presseau, Kednapa Thavorn, Dianna Wolfe, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Surachat Ngorsuraches, Amy Porath, Surapon Nochaiwong, Karen Cohen, Alyssa Grant, Kelly Suschinsky, Mary Bartram, Gord Garner, Lisha DiGioacchino, Andrew Pump, Brianne Peters, Sarah Konefal   +18 more
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Critical Issues in Leadership Development for Peer Support Specialists [PDF]

Community Mental Health Journal, 2020
This paper is a qualitative analysis of perspectives on leadership development among working peer support specialists and highlights the challenges, needs and efficacy these individuals experience in their work settings. Six participants engaged in a 2 h semi-structured focus group.
G. Trey Jenkins, Michael S. Shafer, Nicole Janich   +2 more
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The Competencies of Telehealth Peer Support: Perceptions of Peer Support Specialists and Supervisors During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

Community Mental Health Journal, 2022
This report assesses the competencies and technology needed for the provision of Telehealth Peer Support by Peer Support Specialists . The online survey assessed access to technology, core competencies required for the delivery of ThPS, and resources needed by the workforce to deliver ThPS.
Amy B. Spagnolo, Carlos W. Pratt, Yuane Jia, Matthew DeMasi, Rita Cronise, Kenneth Gill   +5 more
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Core Competencies to Promote Consistency and Standardization of Best Practices for Digital Peer Support: Focus Group Study

JMIR Mental Health, 2021
BackgroundAs digital peer support is quickly expanding across the globe in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, standardization in the training and delivery of digital peer support can advance the professionalism of this field ...
Caroline Collins-Pisano, Juan Velez Court, Michael Johnson, George Mois, Jessica Brooks, Amanda Myers, Anjana Muralidharan, Marianne Storm, Maggie Wright, Nancy Berger, Ann Kasper, Anthony Fox, Sandi MacDonald, Sarah Schultze, Karen Fortuna   +14 more
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“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
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Peers in Primary Care: How Peer Specialists Support Aging Veterans [PDF]

Innovation in Aging, 2020
Abstract Most of the more than 1,100 peer specialists (“peers”) in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) work in mental healthcare settings. These peers provide a variety of services to Veterans such as facilitating groups, teaching recovery and coping skills, connecting Veterans with VHA and community services, and helping Veterans ...
Peeples, Amanda, Muralidharan, Anjana, Kuykendall, Lorrianne, Goldberg, Richard, Chinman, Matthew   +4 more
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Prostate cancer and supportive care:a systematic review and qualitative synthesis of men’s experiences and unmet needs. [PDF]

, 2015
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men worldwide, accounting for an estimated 1.1 million new cases diagnosed in 2012 (www.globocan.iarc.fr). Currently, there is a lack of specific guidance on supportive care for men with prostate cancer.
Evans, Maggie, Huntley, Alyson, King, Anna, Moore, Theresa, Paterson, Charlotte, Persad, Rajendra, Sharp, Debbie   +6 more
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Peer support specialists’ experiences of microaggressions.

Psychological Services, 2019
Microaggressions and their consequences have been observed among people with mental illness. However, little is known about ways in which peer support specialists, those with lived experience who also provide mental health services, experience microaggressions or the impacts of these experiences.
Ruth L, Firmin, Susan, Mao, Chyrell D, Bellamy, Larry, Davidson   +3 more
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