Background Peers support specialists have positive impacts on the mental health of their
service users. However, less is known about how their mental health changes as a result of …

Certified peer specialists (CPSs) are a growing workforce that uses their lived experience of
a behavioral health disorders plus skills learned in formal training to deliver support …

Over the past decade, there has been a marked uptick in interest in increasing service user
participation in the US mental health care system, including clinical practice, research, and …

Aim To examine whether roles of peer specialists affect service use among Black, Latinx and
White youth ages 16‐24 with serious mental illness (SMI) in Los Angeles and San Diego …

The current study seeks to determine how peer support roles change as peer support
specialists' positions within organizations and departments mature. We followed ten peer …

Background Peer support workers are an important addition to the mental healthcare
profession. However, much of the literature and knowledge of the peer support role is …

Over the past two decades, there has been increased recognition of the effectiveness of
peer delivered services, with prior research highlighting the benefits for both recipients of …

Over the past 55 years, in the United States, we have witnessed shifts and changes in
mental health treatment practice and policy focused on 'psychosis.'Alarmingly, in this same …

Peer Specialists (PS) often work in outpatient mental health programs serving transition age
youth (TAY). This study examines program managers' perspectives on efforts to strengthen …

Background Starting in the 1990s in the United States, individuals with lived experience of
mental health crises and recovery have been employed as peer support workers (PSWs) …