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Peer Support: Building Recovery and Wellness Relationships

Learn about the principles of Peer Support, including how it promotes growth, recovery, and wellness using the Wellness Recovery Action Plan. Discover the values and ethics behind Peer Support and how it differs from clinical services.

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Peer Support: Building Recovery and Wellness Relationships

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  1. an introduction by Richard Brabrook July 2006

  2. Peer Support • This information was taken from: • Publisher: Peach Press • ISBN:0-9631366-7-4 Sherry Mary Ellen Mead Copeland Approx. £15.00

  3. What is Peer Support? • About having relationships with other people in new and different ways that promote: • Growth • Recovery • Wellness Using the principles of the WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)

  4. About the creators • Created by Shery Mead & Mary Ellen Copeland • Mary Ellen was awarded the John Beard award, in June 2006, for outstanding contributions to the field of psychosocial rehabilitation and because her contributions to the mental health field have led to decisive, lasting, and far-reaching advances.  • Shery says that without “Peer Support”, she wouldn’t have moved beyond the “mental patient” role. She was diagnosed at 17 with Schizophrenia and it took years of lobbying the psychiatrists and government to look at Peer Support instead of just medicating and using therapy

  5. Peer Support & WRAP • Both created in the United States of America • Peer Support goes beyond the WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) • The WRAP was created in 1997 by Mary Ellen Copland and a group of people who used mental health systems • Peer Support followed when Shery Mead was made a Director of a new Peer Support Programme in New Hampshire, USA, to look at what it might look like and how.

  6. Peer Support • Instead of taking care of each other and think of each other as “Sick”, in Peer Support, we build a sense of family and community that is mutually responsible and focused on recovery and social action. • Peer Support is not like clinical support, it is more like being friends. It has structures to protect each person in the relationship.

  7. Peer Support v Other Services

  8. 15 Values and Ethics • Hope • Self determination, personal responsibility, empowerment and self-advocacy • Treating each other as equals with dignity, compassion, mutual respect and unconditional high regard • Unconditional acceptance of each person as they are • No-limits to Recovery • Choices and options, not final answers • Voluntary Participation • Personal Expertise

  9. 15 Values and Ethics • Clinical, medical and diagnostic language is discouraged • Focus on working together to increase mutual understanding, knowledge and promote wellness • Adaptable to anyone’s personal philosophy • Emphasis on strategies that are simple and safe • Normalise responses • Focus on strengths and away from perceived deficits • The body of knowledge is always expanding and is infinite.

  10. The relationship should include: • Empathy and accountability • Having fun • Valuing community • Taking care of yourself • Not using symptoms as an excuse for bad behaviour • Learning to work through conflict • Giving and receiving critical feedback • Mutual validation • Confidentiality

  11. How Peer Support Works • Working in a relationship with someone • Agreement • Take turns • Listen • Empathy • Support • Honest • Reliable

  12. Outcomes of using Peer Support • Can include: • Improved quality of life • Higher levels of wellness, opportunity and possibility • Increased use of natural supports • Personal responsibility and empowerment • Increased understanding of difficult feelings and behaviours • Decrease in the impact of traumatic life events and stigma Decrease in the need for costly therapies and health services • Shift in focus from mental health care symptom controlled to prevention and recovery • Significant reduction in costs for mental health and emergency services • An increased ability to meet life and vocational goals

  13. Recommendations • If you think Peer Support will work for you, we would recommend that you attend some training sessions to enable you to either gain and / or practice the skills to make this process work for you and the person you will be working with. • Enter with an open mind • Expect to face challenges / goals and do so with optimism

  14. Training Programme • I would recommend any training to include: • Review of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan • Empathy Skills • Listening Skills • Giving and Receiving Feedback • How to Support Someone • Confidentiality • Creating a Working Relationship

  15. Further Information: • www.recoverydevon.co.uk • www.mentalhealthrecovery.com • www.mentalhealthpeers.com • MIND in Exeter and East Devon 32 – 34 High Street, Honiton, EX14 1PU T: 01404 42548 F: 01404 42243 E: training@mindeastdevon.org.uk

  16. Thank you for listening Any questions? Summary: • Contact and further information: • www.recoverydevon.co.uk • www.mentalhealthrecovery.com • www.mentalhealthpeers.com • MIND in Exeter and East Devon • 32 – 34 High Street, Honiton, EX14 1PU • T: 01404 42548 F: 01404 42243 • E: training@mindeastdevon.org.uk Publisher: Peach Press ISBN:0-9631366-7-4 Approx. £15.00

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