Peer support or mutual support has long been seen to take place wherever service users
come together: on inpatient wards, day centres and drop-ins, in service user groups, and in …

Recovery-oriented practice (ROP) is being steadily adopted worldwide. The current
research aimed to examine perspectives of clinicians about having people with lived …

Peer recovery services are a community-based treatment option for people suffering from
mental illness and/or substance use problems. Peer services provide an alternative to …

Various types of peer support merit further evaluation. Assessing the impact of peer support
on service users, peer providers and organizations require complex intervention studies …

This article describes the preparation, selection, training, and support of a group of people
with lived experience of mental distress/illness and mental health service use to work as …

Peer support workers (PSWs) use their experiential knowledge and specific skills to support
patients in their recovery process. The aim of our study was to examine the integration and …

The Partners In Recovery (PIR) programme is a recent Australian national policy initiative
that employs Peer Workers (PWs) who have a lived experience of mental health problems in …

We conducted a comprehensive narrative review and used a systematic search strategy to
identify studies related to peer support among adults with mental health difficulties. The …

Objective: Peer support has been shown to support personal recovery from mental illness. It
is unclear whether the effects of peer support across different mental illnesses depend on …

Recovery-orientated practice is crucial to mental health care services—consistently
identified in policy, service delivery guidelines and national mental health action plans. An …