Sarah Gibson

TL;DR: This research is indicative of potential benefits for mental health service teams of introducing Peer Worker roles and suggests that if the emergence of a distinctive body of peer practice is not adequately considered and supported, there is a risk that the potential impact of any emerging role will be constrained and diluted.

TL;DR: This paper was able to model process and downstream outcomes potentially associated with peer worker interventions and identified core processes within the peer worker role that were productive of change for service users supported by peer workers.

TL;DR: Good practice across contexts in structural issues including recruitment and training is found, but differences in expectations of the peer worker role in different organisational cultures are found.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a framework, based on existing evidence and the experiential insight of the team, which conceptualised the challenges and facilitators of introducing peer worker roles into mental health services.

TL;DR: This research examines how different forms of knowledge and expertise are increasingly important in caring for people experiencing mental illness and points to how the situated nature of subjective knowing is uniquely embedded in time and space and allows for the alignment of embodied knowledge with trajectories of care.