Shery Mead, Mental Health Peers
A review of critical ingredients literature:
- achieving difference
- critical learning
- mutuality: redefining help
- language
- mutual responsibility
- redefining safety: sharing risk
- staying on track
An excellent literature review structured around practical applications:
- face to face self-management programs
- peer coaches
- community health workers
- telephone based peer support
- web and email based peer support
Covers underlying theory and provides an overview of:
- peer support in schools and education
- peer support in mental health
- peer support in addiction
- peer support in chronic illness
- peer support for firts responders
- peer suppor tfor persons with disabilities
- peer support for survivors of trauma
- peer support for veterans and their families
Mental Health Commission of Canada
- case and benefits
- overview of how peer support is deployed, structures
- many examples
Defense Centers of Excellence - for phsychological health and traumatic brain injury