Watson / Meddings Peer Support in Mental Health

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-352-00507-3
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Foundations of Mental Health Practice

In recent years, the concepts of peer support, self-help and self-management have moved from the periphery of mental health care toward the centre, and have fast become mainstream approaches to supporting well-being. Peer Support in Mental Health provides an overview of the core concepts and an appreciation of the complexities, controversies and applications of each concept. This innovative textbook will support not only mental health professionals and trainees, but also peers, people who use services and their carers.  The authors...Track the development of peer support approaches and provide an overview of their current uses and applicationsUse case examples to support the application of theory to practiceDraw on lived experience to demonstrate the diff erent approaches to peer support

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Emma

Meddings, Sara

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What is peer support? History, evidence and values (Emma Watson).- The politics of peer support (Emma Watson).- The many faces of peer support – what can it look like in practice? (Emma Watson).- Recovery Colleges and Peer support (Sara Meddings,Waldo Roeg and Sandra Jayacodi).- Peer Support, Intersectionality and Socially Excluded Communities (Eleanor Hope and Shazia Ali).- Peer support for family and friends: carers supporting each other (Karen Machin, Sara Meddings and Jacqueline Clarke-Mapp).- Peer support training (Karen Machin).- All mental health professionals using lived experience (Sara Meddings, Phil Morgan and Glenn Roberts).- Employing and Supporting People with Lived Experience in Peer Support and Other Roles (Clare Ockwell and Howard Pearce).- Peer-led Services: Doing it ourselves (Mirika Flegg and Anna Stratford)

Über Autor(innen)

Emma Watson is the Peer Support Development Lead and Peer Trainer at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustSara Meddings is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust