What are the values of peer support?
The most basic value of peer support is that people freely choose to participate. It is for people who want to be involved, not people who have been told they need it or who are pressured to attend. The voluntary nature of peer support makes it easier for us to build trust and connections with one another.
What are the underlying values and beliefs of peer helping?
Peer helping assists children and adolescents to feel capable, understood, and responsible. Peer helping teaches young people decision-making skills to help combat negative peer pressure; and provides children and adolescents with communication skills to understand others and be understood.
What makes a good peer support person?
RELATIONSHIP-FOCUSED: The relationship between the peer worker and the peer is the foundation on which peer recovery support services and support are provided. The relationship between the peer worker and peer is respectful, trusting, empathetic, collaborative, and mutual.
What are peer support principles?
The Goals of Peer Support: Peer supporters should: (a) provide an empathetic, listening ear; (b) provide low level psychological intervention; (c) identify colleagues who may be at risk to themselves or others; and (d) facilitate pathways to professional help.
What are peer values?
Peer support is voluntary. Peer supporters are hopeful. Peer supports are open minded. Peer supporters are empathetic. Peer supports are respectful.
What are the four approaches to delivering peer support services?
Peer-Based Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support specialists aid people in laying the foundation for SAMHSA’s four dimensions of recovery: Health, Home, Community and Purpose, that support a life in recovery.
What would make the applicant a good peer recovery supporter?
A Certified Peer Recovery Supporter (or Recovery Coach) is a person with significant lived experience, has overcome issues with chemical dependency, substance abuse, and/or mental illness.
What is the role of a peer support worker?
A PSW provides formalised peer support and practical assistance to help service users regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process. They work with service users, with the aim of supporting them to achieve a better quality of life despite mental health difficulties.
What is the role of a peer specialist?
A Peer Support Specialist is a person who has walked the path of recovery from mental illness and is employed to assist others in their journeys of recovery. Peers promote hope through positive self-disclosure, demonstrating that recovery is possible.
What is the role of a peer support leader?
Peer Support leaders are trained to deliver scheduled workshops with students from younger year levels, covering topics and skills that are designed to help them make friends, build confidence and flourish in the year ahead.
Is peer support a clinical role?
Peer Support Worker is not a clinical role. PSWs don’t diagnose or provide treatments, they are not lead carers for service users and they do not offer therapy or advice. Peer support is based only on lived experience of recovery, plus some technical skills gained through training.
What are the core values of peer work?
Core Values of Peer Work Foster hope and help people find meaning and purpose in life Preserve dignity and counter stigma, shame, and discrimination Connect people to peer supports Promote community connectedness Core Values of Peer Work cont’d Engage and support family and friends
What is the difference between peer support and peer counseling?
The client receives support from peers who can model self-care and help them navigate the health care system, while the peer counselors are gainfully employed in a job that supports their own recovery by providing meaningful work. The future of peer support
Does peer support improve recovery outcomes?
Systematic reviews have confirmed that, while peer support and clinical practice typically perform fairly equally on traditional outcome measures like rehospitalization and relapse, peer support scores better in areas related to the recovery process.
What is a peer support program?
Specifically, peer support programs can be defined as peer-to-peer interaction in which individuals who are of approximately the same age take on a helping role, assisting students who may share related values, experiences and lifestyles.