The peer support workforce: Results of a national survey.

Cronise, Rita; Teixeira, Carina; Rogers, E. Sally; Harrington, Steve

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“…Contrary to the USA studies (Cronise et al, ; Salzer et al, ) indicating that most PSSs work in community settings, three‐quarters of the participants in our study reported working in inpatient settings. This could be due to the strong focus on inpatient services in the mental health field in Switzerland, in comparison with other countries, where the community sector is more developed (Hewlett & Moran, ).…”

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“…Based on the results of our survey, salaries seem to be higher in Switzerland than in the United States (Cronise et al, ) (29‐38 CHF vs 15 USD per hour). The currency conversion rate between the CHF and the USD is nearly one‐to‐one, and the annual median of equalized disposable incomes is comparable between the two countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development, ).…”

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“…In Switzerland, it appears to take longer than elsewhere, to increase the number of PSSs along with their degree of employment. Cronise et al () indicate a correlation between having a pension and wanting to work more, and 30% of participants indicated fearing for their pension when increasing their working hours. In our survey, participants with a pension were more likely to indicate not wanting to work more (33%) in comparison with participants without a pension (19%).…”

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“…Current research on PSW is, however, mainly focused on English-speaking areas. It has revealed that PSSs are active in many different roles within mental health services (Cronise, Teixeira, Rogers, & Harrington, 2016;Moran, Russinova, Gidugu, & Gagne, 2013) and are involved at different levels (Tambuyzer, Pieters, & Van Audenhove, 2014). The micro-level represents the most frequently described role of the PSSs.…”

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Peer support in Switzerland – Results from the first national survey

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Rother

Elhilali

et al. 2019

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Peer work is now known in Switzerland for 10 years and has developed strongly. The aim of the study was to describe peer support specialists’ (PSSs’) work conditions and job satisfaction, as well as the challenges of integration into the workforce in Switzerland. A further aim was to identify possible development topics in the preparation of PSSs for working with peer support work (PSW) training and interventions within the working field. We launched a survey with a self‐developed questionnaire for people with lived experiences with mental illness and recovery who were working as PSSs or experts by experience in education, research, politics, and other areas in the German‐speaking region of Switzerland. The survey took place from 1 September 2017 to 15 November 2017. The results show that PSSs were working mostly in 1:1 contact with service users and in education and noticeably less in politics and research. Their work conditions and job satisfaction seemed good. Most PSSs had job descriptions matching their duties, were satisfied with their salaries, and indicated being satisfied or very satisfied with their work. Amongst other aspects, the greatest challenge reported was integration into the inter‐disciplinary working team. PSS training should better consider the working areas of experts by experience in the fields of politics and research to reinforce employment opportunities in these work areas. To increase the impacts of PSSs and to improve integration into the workspace, the preparation of professionals and institutions should be improved by means of information sessions, trainings, and guidelines.

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“…For example, Chinman et al are developing a peer specialist fidelity measure for two content areas: services provided by peer specialists and factors that support or hamper the performance of those services. Cronise et al conducted a US national survey to identify the roles, tasks, settings, job training and compensation currently offered to those with the title of “peer specialist”. They found that peers are no longer just part‐time workers in community based settings.…”

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Peer delivered services in mental health care in 2018: infancy or adolescence?

Farkas

Boevink

2018

World Psychiatry

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A second possibility is that antipsychotics have a normalizing effect on reward processing. Studies examining the neural response to rewarding stimuli in schizophrenia suggest that second generation antipsychotics are associated with intact response to reward outcomes in the ventral striatum 7 . Since individuals with schizotypy and youth at clinical high risk for psychosis are much less likely to be prescribed antipsychotics, the apparent paradox may reflect medication effects that become evident with more severe pathology.Third, schizophrenia is associated with more severe cognitive impairment and poorer insight into clinical symptomatology than schizotypy or clinical high risk states. It is possible that impaired cognition and insight are paradoxically protective, causing schizophrenia patients to have less awareness of hedonic deficits that may actually exist. Those with schizotypy and clinical high risk youth may be better able to accurately report their hedonic state because of higher cognitive function and insight.Fourth, environmental and stress effects may have a greater impact on youth at clinical high risk for psychosis and those with schizotypy. Schizophrenia is associated with impoverished quality of life, which for many patients reflects an environment and daily routine with restricted social, cognitive and affective demands. For individuals with schizotypy and clinical high risk youth, environments and daily routines are generally more complex and stressful. It is possible that this stress attenuates reward system responsivity. Supporting this, individuals with schizotypy seem to enjoy solitary activities, yet report activities with others as being taxing, stressful and unenjoyable 8 . Animal models and studies on humans support the notion of a "stress-induced anhedonia" 9 ; however, thisphenomenon has yet to be directly investigated in the schizophrenia spectrum. The schizophrenia spectrum anhedonia paradox harkens back to the seminal writings of P. Meehl 10 , who proposed that anhedonia is one of several polygenic potentiators that comprise the endophenotype for schizotaxia. Meehl distinguished between primary and secondary anhedonia. Primary anhedonia refers to one's hedonic capacity. This capacity is polygenically determined and dependent on neurotransmitter function and neural circuitry responsible for reward responsivity. Capacity varies on a continuous dimension, but may be taxonic at the extreme end. It seems that only a small proportion of schizophrenia patients would fall at the extreme end of the continuum, whereas substantially more individuals with schizotypy and clinical high risk youth would display primary anhedonia. Primary anhedonia may be a risk factor for the development of many forms of psychopathology, with schizophrenia being a less common outcome than others. Meehl also proposed the existence of "secondary anhedonia", which is measured via verbal report (through clinical interview or questionnaire) of one's hedonic response. He proposed that such reports are influenced b...

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(Under)valuing lived experience in the disability workforce: A snapshot of Australian job recruitment

Davies

Butler

2022

Aust J Social Issues

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The Australian disability workforce has grown, and there is compelling evidence that peer work has a number of valuable impacts. Despite these apparent opportunities, there continue to be high levels of unemployment among people with disability and failure to draw on the assets of people with disability in Australian workplaces. To understand these ostensible missed opportunities, this study examined the ways in which lived experience was described as an asset in disability workforce recruitment. Advertisements for positions in New South Wales, Australia, that referred to lived experience or peer work and disability were collected over a 3-month period. Through a process of content analysis, we found that there were more employment opportunities for people with lived experience of mental illness than for other types of disability. Community engagement was a key function, and peer workers were described as complementary to professionals.Recruitment processes for lived experience jobs were not necessarily accessible. We recommend systemic reforms to facilitate recognition of lived experience as a valuable criterion for disability sector employment and to harness the benefits of a disability peer workforce.You can find an Easy Read report about this study called 'Working in the disability sector: Why is it important to include people with lived experience?' at http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1447606. This report uses pictures and text to make the research accessible to more people.

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The peer support workforce: Results of a national survey.

Cited by 129 publications

References 17 publications

Peer support in Switzerland – Results from the first national survey

Peer support in Switzerland – Results from the first national survey

Peer delivered services in mental health care in 2018: infancy or adolescence?

(Under)valuing lived experience in the disability workforce: A snapshot of Australian job recruitment

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