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Professional development aids peers, family support specialists

Mental Health Weekly
Inspiring recovery and wellness through professional development and continuing education in order to equip emerging leaders and strengthen the peer and family support workforce is the stated mission behind an Arizona‐based organization's intent to improve workforce development and address workforce shortages.
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Identifying the Core Competencies for Crisis Peer Support Specialists: an e-Delphi Study

Community Mental Health Journal
Peer support specialists (PSS) are essential in behavioral health and substance use crisis services by providing support, hope, and encouragement to those in crisis. Despite their benefits, there is a lack of consensus on the core competencies required for PSS working in crisis settings.
Sean, Karyczak, Amy, Spagnolo, Shannon, Higbee, Steve, Miccio, Nora, Barrett, Emily, Grossman   +5 more
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Peer Support Specialists: SAMHSA's designation raises confusion

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
If you are in recovery from a substance use disorder (SUD), a peer would be another person in recovery from a SUD. At least, that's the purist way of thinking, before the word “peer” came into common usage. For years, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has endeavored in various ways to promote the blending of SUDs ...
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Resistance to the biomedicalization of mental illness through peer support: The case of peer specialists and mental health

Social Science & Medicine
Certified peer specialists (CPS) are mental health professionals who draw their expertise from lived experience with mental illness and mental distress. They tale a nonmedical, nonclinical approach to providing support to community members with mental health difficulties and in doing so, emphasize the role of social environmental factors that ...
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Job satisfaction and burnout among peer support specialists: the contributions of supervisory mentorship, recovery-oriented workplaces, and role clarity

Advances in Mental Health, 2022
Kristen M Abraham
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An examination of peer recovery support specialist work roles and activities within the recovery ecosystems of Central Appalachia

Addiction Research and Theory, 2023
Angela Hagaman, Robert Pack, Kelly Foster   +2 more
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A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis of the Way Peer Support Specialist Roles Change Over Time in a Psychiatric Hospital Setting in Asia

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2021
Daniel Poremski, Jonathan Han Loong Kuek, Ziqiang Li   +2 more
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Impact of psychiatric advance directive facilitation on mental health consumers: empowerment, treatment attitudes and the role of peer support specialists

Journal of Mental Health, 2021
Michele M Easter, Jeffrey W Swanson, Allison G Robertson   +2 more
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Peer Support Specialists Have Something to Teach Psychiatrists

Psychiatric News, 2023
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Another rather than other: experiences of peer support specialist workers and their managers working in mental health services

Journal of Public Mental Health, 2011
Clio Berry, Mark Hayward
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