People with experience of mental health problems, who are trained to work in support of other people’s recovery.
Peer Support Workers can be described as modelling recovery, offering a lived example of the possibility of progression and growth.
Peer support is a system of giving and receiving help founded on key principles of respect, shared responsibility, and a mutual agreement of what is helpful.
Peer support is not based on psychiatric models and diagnostic criteria.
It is about understanding another’s situation with empathy through the shared experience of emotional and psychological pain where people are able to ‘be with each other’ without the constraints of traditional (expert/patient) relationships.
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