peer support

How do you balance your professional skills with being a good friend?

PARTNER-MH is an innovative, peer-led patient navigation programme to support racially and ethnically minoritised veterans seeking mental healthcare.

Although social awareness of HIV is rising, there are still certain controversies, stereotypes and myths related to this condition.

It’s hard to believe another year has flown by, and Social Work Month is already upon us again.

So, this leads to the question: what’s the best way to speak to someone who is suddenly depressed?

Adolescents from deprived backgrounds are more likely to report social media addiction.

My story here begins in 1983, about two years after my first diagnosis of many; I met someone involved in peer support named DH.

The ‘new norm’. I have a big issue with this concept.

Most volunteer opportunities are remote (virtual).

For most consumers under its auspices, we mental patients just call it the system.

The whole concept of peer support is centred around individuals bringing their own personal knowledge of an experience, such as mental health.

You don’t need to have a seriously mentally ill loved one to brush up against madness every time you go out in public, right New Yorkers?

In most cases, like most of us in the social and professional world, I am communicating a message learned from lived experience.

Stigma is when someone sees one differently because of their mental illness.

There is an unspoken, covert, and arbitrary standard for working in the mental health community as a peer.