‘Like a family in the end’: Improving mental health Recovery skills through Peer‐to‐Peer communication in Darwin, Australia
| Autor: | Noemi Tari‐Keresztes, Xenia Girdler, Himanshu Gupta, Brendon Clarke, Ben Christie, James A. Smith, Noelene Armstrong, Vanessa Harris |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Health & Social Care in the Community. 30 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2524 0966-0410 |
| Popis: | The existing psychosocial Support activities in the Northern Territory, Australia, are mostly delivered through individualised outreach and client-centred Support programs and do not currently have a strong Peer focus. To address this gap, a Peer-Led Education Pilot was developed and implemented in Darwin, Australia. The pilot was comprised of three separate but overarching stages, and each stage was independently evaluated. In this article, results from Stage 1 will be presented, with a specific focus on the role of Peer-to-Peer communication in improving participants' mental health and Recovery skills. This stage involved the delivery of the My Recovery program to self-nominated participants, and the evaluation was aimed at reporting on the appropriateness and effectiveness of the program. The evaluation was qualitative in design involving individual pre- and post-program interviews with program participants (n |
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