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Intentional Peer Support
- $45.00
- 6kg
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The valued role of being a Peer Support Worker and working with one's peers is becoming increasingly popular within the mental health movements. Research has shown that people respect and gain increased mental health wellbeing by talking and being supported by a peer.
Intentional Peer Support takes the peer support role and provides the worker with much valued concepts and skills in order to undertake the role with integrity. A peer is an equal. Intentional peer support highly values the equality and mutuality of the peer relationships.
Even if you are a peer in another health or community sector you will gain invaluable knowledge and skills on how to undertake the peer support role and support other human beings on their journeys through life.
Shery Mead (from the USA) is considered an International mental health consumer (person living with mental illness) expert in peer support and has written a number of articles or co-written books on the subject.
She has refined and further developed the peer support role into one of Intentional Peer Support.
Intentional Peer Support takes the reader through a journey of discussing peer support on a practical and informative level. Peer Support in the mental health arena is provided by mental health consumers (people living with mental illness) on an equal and respectful basis.
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