National Estimates for Mental Health Mutual Support Groups, Self-Help Organizations, and Consumer-Operated Services

Are All Consumer-Operated Programs Empowering Self-Help Agencies?

“…Leaders tend to be selected for their vision and ability to get things done (Budd, 1987, p. 126). The challenge of the leadership in the board-staff-run COSP is to be accountable to the membership (Goldstrom et al, 2006;Harp & Zinman, 1994;Zinman, 1987). This study considers whether the.d1aracteristics of these two organizational leadership styles are perceptible to member participants a.nd whether they are associated with member repo1ts of their degree of empowerment.…”

Participatory Spaces of Mental Health Service User Organizations in the Post-deinstitutional Era: Mapping Roles and Challenges

“…This development is especially evident in the USA, where peer-provided services by far outnumber traditional services (Goldstrom et al 2006). The service-providing role of MHSUOs is the main focus of many of the included texts, especially within texts focused on the North American context (Brown et al 2008a(Brown et al , 2010Fleury et al 2012;Goering et al 2006;Hardiman 2007;Yates et al 2011).…”

“…The service-providing role of MHSUOs is the main focus of many of the included texts, especially within texts focused on the North American context (Brown et al 2008a(Brown et al , 2010Fleury et al 2012;Goering et al 2006;Hardiman 2007;Yates et al 2011). However, these organizations are often involved in both service provision and advocacy activities (Goldstrom et al 2006;Janzen et al 2006;Tanenbaum 2012). Just like the 'social movement service organizations' conceptualized by Meyer (2010), many organizations are hybrid in activity.…”

Peer Support in a Mental Health Service Context

“…Using the foci of groups described by Cohen and Mullender (2005), peer support groups can be classified as: Across these three broad forms, many specific terms have been used to describe peer support initiatives, as illustrated in Table 1. Table 1 Terms used to describe peer support initiatives Consumer delivered services (e.g., Salzer & Shear, 2002) Consumer drop-in centres (Mowbray, Robinson, & Holter, 2002) Consumer-operated self-help centres (Swarbrick, 2007) Consumer-run businesses (Kimura, Mukaiyachi, & Ito, 2002) Consumer-run services (Goldstrom, et al, 2006) Consumer-run organizations (Clay, Schell, Corrigan, & Ralph, 2005) Consumer/survivor initiatives (Nelson, Lord, & Ochocka, 2001) Mutual-help groups Mutual support groups (Chien, Thompson, & Norman, 2008) Self-help agencies (Segal & Silverman, 2002) Self-development programs (e.g., Oades et al, 2009) Self-help programs (Chamberlin, Rogers, & Ellison, 1996) _________________________________________________________________ Peer support programs can sit within traditional community based psychosocial rehabilitation services as a peer partnership model. This means they give up some control of legal, financial and content of the program (Solomon, 2004).…”