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peer support
- Mental Health & Well-Being
Peer-Led Patient Navigation Helps Minoritised Patients Engage in Their Mental Healthcare
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?
- Cyberpsychology & Technology
Facebook and Instagram Addiction in Adolescents Linked to Inequality, New Research Suggests
by News Releaseby News ReleaseAdolescents 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.
- Mental Health & Well-Being
The ‘New Norm’ Is the Idea That Your Situation Simply Isn’t Going to Improve
The ‘new norm’. I have a big issue with this concept.
- Mental Health & Well-Being
New York-Based Peer Support Charity City Voices Looking for Volunteers
by News Releaseby News ReleaseMost 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.
- Mental Health Stories
Courting Tragedy – New York City’s Mental Health Crisis Response Fumbles
by Elsie Ramseyby Elsie RamseyYou 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.
- Mental Health Stories
What’s the Difference Between Stigma and Discrimination – Let Me Tell These to You Based from My 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.