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Actions targeting the integration of peer workforces in mental health organisations: a mixed-methods systematic review
BackgroundLived experience workforces are one of the fastest growing emerging disciplines in Australian mental health service settings. Individuals...
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Recovery 101: A Community Psychoeducation Program on Mental Health Recovery and Peer Support Services Created by an Academic Psychiatrist and Delivered by Peers
ObjectiveDespite the ongoing growing interest and established benefits of mental health recovery and peer support services, little is known about the...
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The effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of peer support approaches for mental health: a systematic umbrella review
BackgroundPeer support for mental health is recommended across international policy guidance and provision. Our systematic umbrella review summarises...
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Community-based perinatal mental health peer support: a realist review
BackgroundPeer support has been suggested as an alternative or complement to professional support for mothers with perinatal mental health...
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Focusing a realist evaluation of peer support for paediatric mental health
ObjectiveMental health problems are a leading and increasing cause of health-related burden in children across the world. Peer support interventions...
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The role of peer support in recovery among clients with mental illness attending the psychiatric service in a tertiary hospital in Malaysia: a qualitative study
BackgroundThe understanding that mental health recovery is a personal and subjective experience informs mental health policies in many countries....
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Employment of Certified Peer Specialists in Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas
The current demand for mental health services is exacerbated by an ongoing shortage of behavioral health care providers in the United States. The...
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A balancing act: integrating the expertise of youth peer workers in child and adolescent mental health services
The socio-relational focus of youth peer support workers (YPSWs) poses a challenge when YPSWs are embedded in medical oriented contexts common to...
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The impact of peer support work on the mental health of peer support specialists
BackgroundPeers support specialists have positive impacts on the mental health of their service users. However, less is known about how their mental...
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International youth mental health case study of peer researchers’ experiences
BackgroundThe involvement of young people as peer researchers, especially with lived experience, is increasingly considered important in youth mental...
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“I Think Peer Support Helps to Demystify People Who Have Mental Health Issues and Helps to Remove That Stigma”: Exploring the Defining Characteristics and Related Challenges of Youth Peer Support Through Participatory Research
Despite the emerging body of literature on the benefits of youth peer support, there is also evidence that peer support can have unintended negative...
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“A Feeling of Safeness and Freedom”: The Promotion of Mental Health Recovery Through Co-Production in an Italian Community Organization
In mental health promotion, recovery is a process that leads to personal strengthening, control over crucial life decisions, and participation in...
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Building on Recovery: Embracing Community Inclusion in Mental Health Policies and Services
Recovery is real and has had a transformative impact on mental health policies and services, including shifting the focus from chronicity and symptom...
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Typology of Mental Health Peer Support Work Components: Systematised Review and Expert Consultation
The employment of mental health peer support (PS) is recommended in national and international mental health policy, and widely implemented across...
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Improving Collaboration Between Youth Peer Support Workers and Non-peer Colleagues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
The involvement of youth peer workers (YPSWs) in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) stimulates hope, destigmatization, and more...
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Managers as peer workers’ allies: A qualitative study of managers’ perceptions and actions to involve peer workers in Norwegian mental health and substance use services
BackgroundCitizens with experience and knowledge about what it is like to use mental health and substance use services are increasingly employed...
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Assessing the Training for Certified Peer Support Specialists Who Provide Mental Health and Substance Use Services
The behavioral health system’s peer support workforce must be adequately trained to perform peer support services, but evidence of the adequacy of...
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Transcending technology boundaries and maintaining sense of community in virtual mental health peer support: a qualitative study with service providers and users
BackgroundThis qualitative study explores the experiences of peer support workers (PSWs) and service users (or peers) during transition from...
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Implementation of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle- and low-income-countries: a theory of change approach
BackgroundStakeholder engagement is essential to the design, implementation and evaluation of complex mental health interventions like peer support....
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Evaluation of lived experience Peer Support intervention for mental health service consumers in Primary Care (PS-PC): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial
BackgroundThe demand for mental health services in Australia is substantial and has grown beyond the capacity of the current workforce. As a result,...
