Peer support services in the behavioral healthcare workforce: State of the field.

Myrick, Keris Jän; Vecchio, Paolo del

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“…Peers have unique knowledge from their lived experience and status that may lead to beneficial interactions that might enhance the development and application of self-management skills [8]. Certified peer specialists are the largest growing mental health workforce [9]. Furthermore, they have the capacity, time, financing, and appropriate knowledge of self-management to support adults with SMI and chronic health conditions [9].…”

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“…Certified peer specialists are the largest growing mental health workforce [9]. Furthermore, they have the capacity, time, financing, and appropriate knowledge of self-management to support adults with SMI and chronic health conditions [9]. Emerging evidence indicates peer-delivered self-management interventions lead to improvements in patient activation, self-efficacy, health locus of control, and illness self-management behaviors among people with SMI [10–13].…”

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Smartphone Ownership, Use, and Willingness to Use Smartphones to Provide Peer-Delivered Services: Results from a National Online Survey

Fortuna¹,

Aschbrenner²,

Lohman

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Psychiatr Q

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Assess certified peer specialists' smartphone ownership, use, and willingness to use smartphones to provide peer-delivered services. Certified peer specialist from 38 states completed an online survey. The final sample of 267 certified peer specialists included respondents from 38 states. The majority of certified peer specialists were female (73%; n = 195) and Caucasian (79.8%; n = 213), with an average age of 50.9 (SD = 12) years, range from 21 to 77 years. More than half of the certified peer specialists (82.1%; n = 184) were currently working in peer support positions. Of those who reported their mental health diagnoses, 11% reported their diagnosis as schizophrenia spectrum disorder, 22% of respondents reported bipolar disorder, and 23% reported persistent major depressive disorder. Nearly all respondents owned a smartphone (94.8%; n = 253), and everyone indicated that smartphones and tablets could enhance the services they deliver. Certified peer specialists reported substantial ownership and use of smartphones, comparable to existing national data. They are willing to deliver smartphone interventions for mental health and physical health self-management, suggesting that smartphones may be an increasingly useful tool for offering evidence-based care. Without Medicaid mandate, certified peer specialists are naturally trying to enhance peer delivered services with technology. Peer support could act as a mechanism to promote consumer engagement in a smartphone-based intervention. Certified peer specialist own and utilize smartphones, and the majority are willing to deliver technology-based and technology-enhanced interventions using these devices to address medical and psychiatric self-management.

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Smartphone Ownership, Use, and Willingness to Use Smartphones to Provide Peer-Delivered Services: Results from a National Online Survey

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Lohman

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Recovery schools for improving behavioral and academic outcomes among students in recovery from substance use disorders: a systematic review

Hennessy¹,

Tanner‐Smith²,

Finch³

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This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of recovery schools on student behavioral and academic outcomes, compared to the effects of non‐recovery schools. The review summarizes evidence from one quasi‐experimental study (with a total of 194 participants) that had potential serious risk of bias due to confounding. Sizable portions of youth are in recovery from substance use disorders, and many youth will return to use after receiving substance use treatment. Youth spend most of their waking hours at school, and thus schools are important social environments for youth in recovery from substance use disorders. Recovery schools have been identified as educational programs that may help support youth in recovery from substance use disorders. This review focused on two types of recovery schools: RHSs, which are schools that award secondary school diplomas and offer a range of therapeutic services in addition to standard educational curricula; and CRCs, which offer therapeutic and sober support services on college campuses. This review looked at whether recovery schools (RHSs or CRCs) affect academic success and substance use outcomes among students, compared to similar students who are not enrolled in recovery schools. Plain language summary There is insufficient evidence to know whether recovery high schools and collegiate recovery communities are effectiveEvidence that recovery high schools (RHSs) may improve academic and substance use outcomes is based on the findings from a single study with a serious risk of bias. The review in briefVery limited evidence addresses the effectiveness of recovery high schools (RHSs). There is no rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of collegiate recovery communities (CRCs).It is unclear whether CRCs are effective in promoting academic success and reducing substance use among college students. What is the aim of this review?This Campbell systematic review examines the effects of recovery schools on student behavioral and academic outcomes, compared to the effects of non‐recovery schools. The review summarizes evidence from one quasi‐experimental study (with a total of 194 participants) that had potential serious risk of bias due to confounding. What are the main findings of this review?Sizable portions of youth are in recovery from substance use disorders, and many youth will return to use after receiving substance use treatment. Youth spend most of their waking hours at school, and thus schools are important social environments for youth in recovery from substance use disorders. Recovery schools have been identified as educational programs that may help support youth in recovery from substance use disorders.This review focused on two types of recovery schools: RHSs, which are schools that award secondary school diplomas and offer a range of therapeutic services in addition to standard educational curricula; and CRCs, which offer therapeutic and sober support services on college campuses.This review looked at whether recovery schools (RHSs or CRCs) affect academic succes...

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“…). Peer support can be provided in different formats, ranging from self‐help groups to peer employees (Solomon ), with a wide range of approaches identified (Miyamoto & Sono ; Myrick & del Vecchio ). With growing support for the use of peer support workers (PSW), and discussions on the formalization and professionalization of the role, it is important to explore and understand the evolution of the occupational identities of PSW.…”

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“…Peer support is increasingly provided in mental health care, where people who are in recovery from mental health problems use their lived experiences to provide hope and support to those experiencing similar difficulties (Gillard et al 2013). Peer support can be provided in different formats, ranging from self-help groups to peer employees (Solomon 2004), with a wide range of approaches identified (Miyamoto & Sono 2012;Myrick & del Vecchio 2016). With growing support for the use of peer support workers (PSW), and discussions on the formalization and professionalization of the role, it is important to explore and understand the evolution of the occupational identities of PSW.…”

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Liminality in the occupational identity of mental health peer support workers: A qualitative study

Simpson

Oster

Muir‐Cochrane

2017

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Peer support is increasingly provided as a component of mental health care, where people in recovery from mental health problems use their lived experiences to provide support to those experiencing similar difficulties. In the present study, we explored the evolution of peer support workers’ (PSW) occupational identities. A qualitative study was undertaken alongside a pilot randomized, controlled trial of peer support for service users discharged from a mental hospital in London, UK. Two focus groups were conducted with eight PSW. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 13 service users receiving peer support and on two occasions with a peer support coordinator. The data were analysed using theoretical thematic analysis, focussing on occupational identity formation. We discuss how the occupational identity of PSW evolved through the interplay between their lived experience, their training, and their engagement in the practice environment in such a way as to construct a liminal identity, with positive and negative outcomes. While the difficulties associated with the liminality of PSW could be eased through the formalization and professionalization of the PSW role, there are concerns that this could lead to an undermining of the value of PSW in providing a service by peers for peers that is separate from formal mental health care and relationships. Skilled support is essential in helping PSW negotiate the potential stressors and difficulties of a liminal PSW identity.

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Peer support services in the behavioral healthcare workforce: State of the field.

Abstract: Workforce and financing challenges exist, yet opportunities, including among others those made possible by the Affordable Care Act, will continue to strengthen the peer support workforce within behavioral health service delivery systems. (PsycINFO Database Record

Cited by 137 publications

References 35 publications

Smartphone Ownership, Use, and Willingness to Use Smartphones to Provide Peer-Delivered Services: Results from a National Online Survey

Smartphone Ownership, Use, and Willingness to Use Smartphones to Provide Peer-Delivered Services: Results from a National Online Survey

Recovery schools for improving behavioral and academic outcomes among students in recovery from substance use disorders: a systematic review

Liminality in the occupational identity of mental health peer support workers: A qualitative study

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