Mental Health: Consumer peer work in mental health

• Research directions for leveraging and supporting the lived experience of mental illness within psychology. Haywood D, Baughman FD, Bosanac P, Johnston K, Gnatt I, Haywood J, Gullifer J, Rossell S. Healthcare, 2023, 11(16):17
• *Valuing the voice of lived experience of eating disorders in the research process: Benefits and considerations. Music S, Elwyn R, Fountas G, Gnatt I, Jenkins ZM, Malcolm A, Miles S, Neill E, Simpson T, Yolland CO, Phillipou A. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2022, 56(3):216-218
• *Perspectives about working alongside mental health peer workers in service teams. Chisholm J, Petrakis M. Advances in Mental Health, 2021
• Peer mentoring for individuals with an eating disorder: a qualitative evaluation of a pilot program. Hanly F, Torrens-Witherow B, Warren N, Castle D, Phillipou A, Beveridge J, Jenkins Z, Newton R, & Brennan L. Journal of Eating Disorders, 2020, 8(1), 29.
• Peer worker perspectives on their potential role in the success of implementing recovery-oriented-practice in a clinical mental health setting. Chisholm J, & Petrakis M. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 2020, 17(3), 300-316.
• Peer mentoring for eating disorders: results from the evaluation of a pilot program. Beveridge J, Phillipou A, Jenkins Z, Newton R, Brennan L, Hanly F, Torrens-Witherow B, Warren N, Edwards K, & Castle D. Journal of Eating Disorders, 2019, 7(1), 13.
• Psychosocial Factors Affecting Smoking Cessation Among People Living With Schizophrenia: A Lived Experience Lens. Cocks N, Brophy L, Segan C, Stratford, A, Jones, S, Castle, D 2019.
• Co-designing and co-producing support during and following inpatient care: Mental health service users and social workers working as allies. Petrakis M, Buckley L, & Raspor C.  Paper presented at the International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health 2019: Shaping the future, York, United Kingdom.(2019). 
• Peer mentoring for eating disorders: evaluation of a pilot program. Beveridge J, Phillipou A, Edwards K, Hobday A, Hilton K, Wyett C, Saw A, Graham G, Castle D, Brennan L, Harrison P, de Gier R, Warren N, Hanly F, Torrens-Witherow B, & Newton JR. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018, 4(1), 75.
• Recovery co-design and peer workforce development in the acute inpatient setting. Chavulak J, Buckley L, & Petrakis M. New Paradigm, 2018, Summer 2017/18, 34-39.
• Peer Support Work in Public Mental Health: Don't see me as my diagnosis and I won't think of you as a clinician. Le Roux J, & Clarke K..  Paper presented at the Hear the Whisper, Not the Roar: Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, Adelaide Conference Proceedings, Adelaide, Australia, 2018.
• Promoting recovery through innovations in collaboration and community programs. Le Roux J, Amann I, Fairclough J, Davies K, Reimers T, & Petrakis M. Paper presented at the Embracing Change: Through Innovation and Lived experience: Proceedings of the 27th TheMHS Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2017.
• Consumer measures and research co-production: a pilot study evaluating the recovery orientation of a mental health program collaboration. Petrakis M, Brophy L, Lewis J, Stylianou M, Scott M, Cocks N, Buckley L, & Halloran K. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 2014, 24(1-2), 94-108.
• Are we recovery orientated? Learning from people with lived experience. Buckley L, Cocks N, Scott M, Stylianou M, Brophy L, Lewis J, Halloran K, & Petrakis M.  Paper presented at the Recovering Citizenship, Contemporary themes in Mental Health Services, The Mental Health Services Conference Inc. of Australia and New Zealand, Cairns, Queensland.(2012). 

Advocacy

• *Mental health consumers’ motives for seeking advocacy support: A qualitative exploration. Stomski NJ, Morrison P, Whitely M, et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2018, 54(5), 607-615.

Avoiding hospitalisation

• The effectiveness of a peer-staffed crisis respite program as an alternative to hospitalization. Bouchery EE, Barna M, Babalola E, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(10), 1069-1074.
• Outcomes of a peer mentor intervention for persons with recurrent psychiatric hospitalization. O'Connell MJ, Sledge WH, Staeheli M, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018, appi.ps.201600478.
• Effectiveness of peer support in reducing readmissions of persons with multiple psychiatric hospitalizations. Sledge WH, Lawless M, Sells D, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2011, 62(5), 541-544.

Community

• *Mental health recovery: The effectiveness of peer services in the community. Kowalski MA. Community Mental Health Journal, 2020, 56(3), 568-580.

Covid-19

• A role for lived experience mental health leadership in the age of covid-19. Byrne L, & Wykes T. Journal of Mental Health, 2020, 29(3), 243-246.

Decision making and advance statements

• ‘Walking the tightrope’: The role of peer support workers in facilitating consumers’ participation in decision‐making. Cleary M, Raeburn T, Escott P, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018
• Two approaches, one goal: How mental health registered nurses' perceive their role and the role of peer support workers in facilitating consumer decision‐making. Cleary M, Raeburn T, West S, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(4), 1212-1218.
• Facilitation of psychiatric advance directives by peers and clinicians on assertive community treatment teams. Easter M, Swanson J, Robertson A, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2017, 68(7), 717-723.
• The Choice Project: Peer workers promoting shared decision making at a youth mental health service. Bender Simmons M, Batchelor S, Dimopoulos-Bick T, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2017, 68(8), 764-770.

Dual diagnosis and substance use

• *Recovery, peer support and confrontation in services for people with mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Corrigan PW, Larson JE, Smelson D, et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2019, 214(3), 130-132.
• Emerging roles for peer providers in mental health and substance use disorders. Chapman SA, Blash LK, Mayer K, et al. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018, 54(6 Suppl 3), S267-S274.​

Eating disorders

• *Valuing the voice of lived experience of eating disorders in the research process: Benefits and considerations. Music S, Elwyn R, Fountas G, Gnatt I, Jenkins ZM, Malcolm A, Miles S, Neill E, Simpson T, Yolland CO, Phillipou A. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2022, 56(3):216-218
• Peer mentoring for eating disorders: results from the evaluation of a pilot program. Beveridge J, Phillipou A, Jenkins Z, Newton R, Brennan L, Hanly F, Torrens-Witherow B, Warren N, Edwards K, & Castle D. Journal of Eating Disorders, 2019, 7(1), 13.
• Peer mentoring for eating disorders: evaluation of a pilot program. Beveridge J, Phillipou A, Edwards K, Hobday A, Hilton K, Wyett C, Saw A, Graham G, Castle D, Brennan L, Harrison P, de Gier R, Warren N, Hanly F, Torrens-Witherow B, & Newton JR. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018, 4(1), 75.

eHealth

• Digital peer support mental health interventions for people with a lived experience of a serious mental illness: Systematic review. Fortuna KL, Naslund JA, LaCroix JM, et al. JMIR Ment Health, 2020, 7(4), e16460.
• Potential benefits of incorporating peer-to-peer interactions into digital interventions for psychotic disorders: A systematic review. Biagianti B, Quraishi SH, & Schlosser DA. Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.), 2018, 69(4), 377-388.
• Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a peer-delivered and technology supported self-management intervention for older adults with serious mental illness. Fortuna KL, DiMilia PR, Lohman MC, et al. Psychiatric Quarterly, 2018, 89(2), 293-305.
• Online peer-to-peer support for young people with mental health problems: A systematic review. Ali K, Farrer L, Gulliver A, et al. JMIR Mental Health, 2015, 2(2), e19.

Exercise and physical activity

• Literature on peer-based community physical activity programmes for mental health service users: A scoping review. Tweed LM, Rogers EN, & Kinnafick F-E. Health Psychology Review, 2020, 1-27.
• Impact of online weight management with peer coaching on physical activity levels of adults with serious mental illness. Muralidharan A, Niv N, Brown C, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(10), 1062-1068.
• Development and evaluation of innovative peer-led physical activity programs for mental health service users. Graham CR, Larstone R, Griffiths B, et al. The Journal of nervous and mental disease, 2017, 205(11), 840-847.

Healthy lifestyle

• Context before implementation: A qualitative study of decision makers' views of a peer-led healthy lifestyle intervention for people with serious mental illness in supportive housing. Cabassa LJ, & Stefancic A. Translational behavioral medicine, 2019, 9(2), 217-226.
• Developing a peer-based healthy lifestyle program for people with serious mental illness in supportive housing. O'Hara K, Stefancic A, & Cabassa LJ. Transl Behav Med, 2017, 7(4), 793-803.

Helplines

• A longitudinal analysis of the influence of a peer run warm line phone service on psychiatric recovery. Dalgin RS, Dalgin MH, & Metzger SJ. Community Mental Health Journal, 2018, 54(4), 376-382.

Hospital to Home transition

• Evaluation of a peer-delivered, transitional and post-discharge support program following psychiatric hospitalisation.  Scanlan JN, Hancock N, Honey A. BMC Psychiatry, 2017, 17(1):307
• Development of a peer-supported, self-management intervention for people following mental health crisis. Milton A, Lloyd-Evans B, Fullarton K, et al. BMC Res Notes, 2017, 10(1), 588.
• Results of a pilot randomised controlled trial to measure the clinical and cost effectiveness of peer support in increasing hope and quality of life in mental health patients discharged from hospital in the UK. Simpson A, Flood C, Rowe J, et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2014, 14, 30.

Inpatient units

• *Beneficial effects of peer support in psychiatric hospitals. A critical reflection on the results of a qualitative interview and focus group study. Otte I, Werning A, Nossek A, et al. Journal of Mental Health, 2020, 29(3), 289-295.

LGBTIQ+

• Development and evaluation of training for rural lgbtq mental health peer advocates. Israel T, Willging C, & Ley D. Rural Ment Health, 2016, 40(1), 40-62.
• Coaching mental health peer advocates for ruralLGBTQ people. Willging CE, Israel T, Ley D, et al. J Gay Lesbian Ment Health, 2016, 20(3), 214-236.

Open Dialogue

• Peer work in Open Dialogue: A discussion paper. Bellingham B, Buus N, McCloughen A, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(5), 1574-1583.

Peer support

• *My space, your space, our space: Exploring the potential of collaborative group facilitation between therapists and peer workers in mental health settings. Hillman K, Pedlar D, Bibb J. Community Mental Health Journal, 2022, 58(3):407-414
• *A multi-national peer support intervention: The upsides pilot phase. Nixdorf R, Nugent L, Aslam Rh et al. Advances in Mental Health, 2022:1-13
• Effectiveness of peer support interventions for adults with depressive symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Shorey, S, & Chua, JYX. Journal of Mental Health, 2022, 1-15. 
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of group peer support interventions for people experiencing mental health conditions. Lyons, N, Cooper, C, & Lloyd-Evans, B. BMC Psychiatry, 2021,  21(1), 315. 
• Peer support for people with schizophrenia or other serious mental illness. Chien, WT, Clifton, AV, Zhao, S, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2019,  4, CD010880. 
• Effectiveness of one-to-one peer support for patients with severe mental illness - a randomised controlled trial. Mahlke CI, Priebe S, Heumann K, et al. European Psychiatry: the Journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists, 2017, 42, 103-110.
• *Clinical effectiveness and acceptability of structured group psychoeducation versus optimised unstructured peer support for patients with remitted bipolar disorder (PARADES): A pragmatic, multicentre, observer-blind, randomised controlled superiority trial. Morriss R, Lobban F, Riste L, et al. The Lancet. Psychiatry, 2016, 3(11), 1029-1038.
• *Influence of single peer interventions on the recovery attitude of persons with a psychiatric disability. Rabenschlag F, Schusterschitz C, Conca A, et al. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2012, 26(4), 755-760.

Physical health 

• The role of peers in health interventions for serious mental Illness. Aschbrenner KA, & Brunette MF. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(5), 497-497.
• Peer-led self-management of general medical conditions for patients with serious mental illnesses: A randomized trial. Druss BG, Singh M, von Esenwein SA, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(5), 529-535.
• *“Here if you need me”: exploring peer support to enhance access to physical health care. Bocking J, Ewart SB, Happell B, et al. Journal of Mental Health, 2018, 27(4), 329-335.
• Peer-based health interventions for people with serious mental illness: A systematic literature review. Cabassa LJ, Camacho D, Vélez-Grau CM, et al. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 2017, 84, 80-89.
• Improving weight in people with serious mental illness: The effectiveness of computerized services with peer coaches. Young AS, Cohen AN, Goldberg R, et al. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2017, 32(Suppl 1), 48-55.
• *Peer support interventions seeking to improve physical health and lifestyle behaviours among people with serious mental illness: A systematic review. Stubbs B, Williams J, Shannon J, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2016, 25(6), 484-495.
• The health and recovery peer (HARP) program: A peer-led intervention to improve medical self-management for persons with serious mental illness. Druss BG, Zhao L, von Esenwein SA, et al. Schizophr Res, 2010, 118(1-3), 264-270.

Psycho-education

• Short-term effects of a peer co-led educational programme delivered before mental health treatment: A randomised controlled trial. Lara-Cabrera ML, Gjerden M, Grawe RW, et al. Patient Education & Counseling, 2016, 99(7), 1257-1261.
• Outcome of a randomized study of a mental health peer education and support group in the VA Eisen SV, Schultz MR, Mueller LN, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2012, 63(12), 1243-1246.
• Effects of adjunctive peer support on perceptions of illness control and understanding in an online psychoeducation program for bipolar disorder: A randomised controlled trial. Proudfoot J, Parker G, Manicavasagar V, et al. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2012, 142(1-3), 98-105.

Recovery oriented practice

• Peer worker perspectives on their potential role in the success of implementing recovery-oriented-practice in a clinical mental health setting. Chisholm J, & Petrakis M. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 2020, 17(3), 300-316.
• Recovery co-design and peer workforce development in the acute inpatient setting. Chavulak J, Buckley L, & Petrakis M. New Paradigm, 2018, Summer 2017/18, 34-39.
• *Associations between the peer support relationship, service satisfaction and recovery-oriented outcomes: A correlational study. Thomas EC, & Salzer MS. Journal of Mental Health, 2018, 27(4), 352-358.
• Promoting recovery through innovations in collaboration and community programs. Le Roux J, Amann I, Fairclough J, Davies K, Reimers T, & Petrakis M. Paper presented at the Embracing Change: Through Innovation and Lived experience: Proceedings of the 27th TheMHS Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2017.
• Consumer measures and research co-production: a pilot study evaluating the recovery orientation of a mental health program collaboration. Petrakis M, Brophy L, Lewis J, Stylianou M, Scott M, Cocks N, Buckley L, & Halloran K. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 2014, 24(1-2), 94-108.
• Are we recovery orientated? Learning from people with lived experience. Buckley L, Cocks N, Scott M, Stylianou M, Brophy L, Lewis J, Halloran K, & Petrakis M.  Paper presented at the Recovering Citizenship, Contemporary themes in Mental Health Services, The Mental Health Services Conference Inc. of Australia and New Zealand, Cairns, Queensland.(2012). 

Reducing restraint

• Perceptions of nurses working with psychiatric consumers regarding the elimination of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric inpatient settings and emergency departments: An Australian survey. Gerace A, & Muir-Cochrane E. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2019, 28(1).

Research

• Lived experience research as a resource for recovery: A mixed methods study. Honey A, Boydell KM, Coniglio F, et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2020, 20(1), 456.
• Creating the conditions for successful integration of peer support specialists into research studies. Hendrix-Brown RM, & Bourdeau GR. Psychiatric Services, 2019, appi.ps.70401.
• Lived experience researchers partnering with consumers and carers to improve mental health research: Reflections from an Australian initiative. Banfield M, Randall R, O'Brien M, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(4), 1219-1229.
• How did I not see that? Perspectives of nonconsumer mental health researchers on the benefits of collaborative research with consumers. Happell B, Gordon S, Bocking J, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(4), 1230-1239.
• *Turning the tables: Power relations between consumer researchers and other mental health researchers. Happell B, Gordon S, Bocking J, et al. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 39(8), 633-640.

Smoking cessation

• Psychosocial factors affecting smoking cessation among people living with schizophrenia: A lived experience lens. Cocks N, Brophy L, Segan C, et al. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019, 10(565).
• Peer workers’ role in smoking-cessation groups for people with mental illness. Ashton M, Mulconray S, Weston M, et al. Australasian Psychiatry, 2012, 21(3), 246-248.

Suicide prevention

• Lived experience peer support programs for suicide prevention: A systematic scoping review. Schlichthorst M, Ozols I, Reifels L, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2020, 14(1), 65.

Training clinicians

• *Embedding lived experience expertise across the mental health tertiary education sector: An integrative review in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. Classen, B, Tudor, K, Johnson, F, et al. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2021,  28(6), 1140-1152. 
• Coteaching recovery to mental health care professionals. Larsen C, Lange M, Jørgensen K, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(6), 620-622.
• *Changing nursing student attitudes to consumer participation in mental health services: A survey study of traditional and lived experience-led education. Byrne L, Platania-Phung C, Happell B, et al. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2014, 35(9), 704-712.

Ebooks

Print books in the Carl de Gruchy library - SVHM Fitzroy campus

Australian

• VMIAC: by and for consumers - Victorian peak body
• Centre for Mental Health Learning Victoria: Peer Inside - peer workforce development
• Centre for Psychiatric Nursing - staff include consumer academics
• Recovery Library - online resources about recovery
• Intentional Peer Support Australia - a framework for approaching peer work
• Our consumer place - resources for mental health consumers
• Voices Vic - peer led program for people who hear voices
• Peer Work Hub: Growing the lived experience workforce - NSW Mental Health Commission
• National Mental Health Commission - Consumers and carers
• Mental Health Reform Victoria - responding to the Royal Commission into Mental Health

International

• PeerZone - lived expertise with resources by Mary O'Hagan (NZ)
• Intentional Peer Support (International) - a framework for peer work (US)
• National Empowerment Centre - recovery, hope and emotional CPR (US)
• MAD in America - webzine fighting for change in psychiatry in the US and elsewhere (US)
• Open Dialogue - an approach to early psychosis using therapeutic conversation (US)
• Power Threat Meaning Framework - an approach to creating hopeful narratives (UK)
• Challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis - asking 'what's happened to you?' (UK)

A ladder of citizen participation [2004 web reprint]. Arnstein SR. 1969

Literature reviews and meta-analyses (general)

• Peer support in mental health: Literature review. Shalaby RAH, & Agyapong VIO. JMIR Ment Health, 2020, 7(6), e15572.
• A systematic review of the attributes and outcomes of peer work and guidelines for reporting studies of peer interventions. King AJ, & Simmons MB. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(9), 961-977.
• A systematic review of the attributes and outcomes of peer work and guidelines for reporting studies of peer interventions. King AJ, & Simmons M. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(9), 961-977.
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of peer support for people with severe mental illness. Lloyd-Evans B, Mayo-Wilson E, Harrison B, et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2014, 14(1), 39.
• Effectiveness of peer-delivered interventions for severe mental illness and depression on clinical and psychosocial outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Fuhr DC, Salisbury TT, De Silva MJ, et al. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2014, 49(11), 1691-1702.
• Consumer‐providers of care for adult clients of statutory mental health services. Pitt V, Lowe D, Hill S, et al. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013, (3).
• Efficacy of peer support interventions for depression: A meta-analysis. Pfeiffer PN, Heisler M, Piette JD, et al. Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 2011, 33(1), 29-36.

Studies and trials (general)

• Investigating the degree of reliable change among persons assigned to receive mental health peer specialist services. Chinman M, McCarthy S, Bachrach RL, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018, 69(12), 1238-1244.
• Relationship of peer specialists to mental health outcomes in south Florida. Castellanos D, Capo M, Valderrama D, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2018, 12, 59.
• Effects of a peer-run course on recovery from serious mental illness: A randomized controlled trial. van Gestel-Timmermans H, Brouwers EP, van Assen MA, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2012, 63(1), 54-60.
• *The effectiveness of peer support groups in psychosis: A randomized controlled trial. Castelein S, Bruggeman R, Van Busschbach JT, et al. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2008, 118(1), 64-72.

Research priorities

• Establishing a research agenda for understanding the role and impact of mental health peer specialists. Chinman M, McInnes DK, Eisen S et al. Psychiatric Services, 2017, 68(9):955-957

General

• *Barriers to genuine consumer and carer participation from the perspectives of Australian systemic mental health advocates. Gee A, McGarty C, & Banfield M. Journal of Mental Health, 2016, 25(3), 231-237.
• Challenges experienced by paid peer providers in mental health recovery: A qualitative study. Moran GS, Russinova Z, Gidugu V, et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2013, 49(3), 281-291.
• Challenges faced by mental health peer support workers: Peer support from the peer supporter's point of view. Kemp V, & Henderson AR. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2012, 35(4), 337-340.
• *Continuing challenges for the mental health consumer workforce: A role for mental health nurses? Cleary M, Horsfall J, Hunt GE, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2011, 20(6), 438-444.

Allies and attitudes

• Understanding the role of allies in systemic consumer empowerment: A literature review. Scholz B, Roper C, Juntanamalaga P, et al. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2019, 1-8.
• Doing what we can, but knowing our place: Being an ally to promote consumer leadership in mental health. Happell B, & Scholz B. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(1), 440-447.
• A substantial peer workforce in a psychiatric service will improve patient outcomes: The case for. Dark F, Patton M, & Newton R. Australasian Psychiatry, 2017, 25(5), 441-44
• A substantial peer-worker workforce in a psychiatric service will improve patient outcomes – the case against. O’Connor N, Clark S, & Ryan CJ. Australasian Psychiatry, 2017, 25(5), 445-447.
• Mental health clinicians' attitudes about consumer and consumer consultant participation in Australia: A cross-sectional survey design. McCann TV, Clark E, Baird J, et al. Nursing & Health Sciences, 2008, 10(2), 78-84.

Communication

• Mechanisms underpinning effective peer support: A qualitative analysis of interactions between expert peers and patients newly-diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Proudfoot JG, Jayawant A, Whitton AE, et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2012, 12(1), 196.

Identity

• Peer Support Work in Public Mental Health: Don't see me as my diagnosis and I won't think of you as a clinician. Le Roux J, & Clarke K..  Paper presented at the Hear the Whisper, Not the Roar: Contemporary TheMHS in Mental Health Services, Adelaide Conference Proceedings, Adelaide, Australia, 2018.
• Liminality in the occupational identity of mental health peer support workers: A qualitative study. Simpson A, Oster C, & Muir-Cochrane E. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(2), 662-671.
• *Mental health nurses and mental health peer workers: Self-perceptions of role-related clinical competences.  Debyser B, Duprez V, Beeckman D, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(3), 987-1001.
• *Constructing a positive identity: A qualitative study of the driving forces of peer workers in mental health-care systems. Vandewalle J, Debyser B, Beeckman D, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(1), 378-389.
• *Peer worker or client?: conflicting identities among peer workers engaged in harm reduction service delivery. Wilson L, Vannice S, Hacksel C, et al. Addiction Research & Theory, 2018, 26(5), 361-368.

Implementation

• Authentic engagement: A conceptual model for welcoming diverse and challenging consumer and survivor views in mental health research, policy, and practice. Daya, I, Hamilton, B, & Roper, C. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2020,  29(2), 299-311. 

• Strategies for implementing consumer involvement in nursing handover on acute mental health in-patient units. Olasoji M, Plummer V, & Cross W. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2020, 1-14.
• A systematic review of influences on implementation of peer support work for adults with mental health problems. Ibrahim N, Thompson D, Nixdorf R, et al. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2020, 55(3), 285-293.
• Typology of modifications to peer support work for adults with mental health problems: Systematic review. Charles A, Thompson D, Nixdorf R, et al. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2020, 216(6), 301-307.
• *An exploration of factors that effect the implementation of peer support services in community mental health settings. Mancini MA. Community Mental Health Journal, 2018, 54(2), 127-137.
• Introducing new peer worker roles into mental health services in England: Comparative case study research across a range of organisational contexts. Gillard S, Holley J, Gibson S, et al. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2015, 42(6), 682-694.
• Introducing peer workers into mental health services: An organisational toolkit. Peer Worker research team St George’s University of London. (2015).
• Introducing peer worker roles into UK mental health service teams: A qualitative analysis of the organisational benefits and challenges. Gillard SG, Edwards C, Gibson SL, et al. BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13(1), 188.

Inclusion and integration

• Authentic engagement: A conceptual model for welcoming diverse and challenging consumer and survivor views in mental health research, policy, and practice. Daya, I, Hamilton, B, & Roper, C. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2020,  29(2), 299-311. 
• *Peer Specialists in Community Mental Health: Ongoing Challenges of Inclusion. Jones N, Niu G, Thomas M, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2019, 70(12), 1172-1175.
• Where do peer providers fit into newly integrated mental health and primary care teams? A mixed method study. Siantz E, Rice E, Henwood B, et al. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2018, 45(4), 538-549.
• Integration of peer specialists working in mental health service settings. Kuhn W, Bellinger J, Stevens-Manser S, et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2015, 51(4), 453-458.
• ​*An examination of the integration of certified peer specialists into community mental health centers. Grant EA, Reinhart C, Wituk S et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2012, 48(4):477-481

Job satisfaction

• Survey of peer support specialists: Professional activities, self-rated skills, job satisfaction, and financial well-being. Lapidos A, Jester J, Ortquist M, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2018.
• *Job satisfaction of peer providers employed in mental health centers: A systematic review. Chappell Deckert J, & Statz-Hill M. Social Work in Mental Health, 2016, 14(5), 564-582.

Misuse

• Uses and misuses of recorded mental health lived experience narratives in healthcare and community settings: Systematic review. Yeo, C, Rennick-Egglestone, S, Armstrong, V, et al. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2022,  48(1), 134-144. 

Organisational support

• Taking a gamble for high rewards? Management perspectives on the value of mental health peer workers. Byrne L, Roennfeldt H, O’Shea P, et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2018, 15(4).

Stigma

• *Factors affecting mental health professionals’ sharing of their lived experience in the workplace: A scoping review. King AJ, Brophy LM, Fortune TL, et al. Psychiatric Services, 2020, 
• *Does stigma towards mental illness affect initial perceptions of peer providers? Flanagan E, Farina A, & Davidson L. Psychiatric Quarterly, 2016, 87(1), 203-210.

Tokenism

• Tokenistic or genuinely effective? Exploring the views of voluntary sector staff regarding the emerging peer support worker role in mental health. Kilpatrick E, Keeney S, & McCauley CO. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2017, 24(7), 503-512.

Training

• Initial training for mental health peer support workers: Systematized review and international Delphi consultation. Charles, A, Nixdorf, R, Ibrahim, N, et al. JMIR Mental Health, 2021,  8(5), e25528. 
• *Outcomes of a co‐facilitation skills training programme for mental health service users, family members, and clinicians: The EOLAS project. Higgins A, Hevey D, Boyd F, et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(2), 911-921.

Wellbeing 

• Subjective well-being, general self-efficacy and coping with stress in former psychiatric patients preparing for the peer support role: An exploratory study. Chudzicka-Czupala A, & Zalewska-Lunkiewicz K. Health & Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020, 18(1), 98.

• *Co-designing consumer and carer peer support principles to assess quality. Otto J, Makela E, Alam S et al. Advances in Mental Health, 2022:1-12
• Try to see it my way: exploring the co-design of visual presentations of wellbeing through a workshop process. Craven M, Goodwin R, Rawsthorne M, et al. Perspectives in Public Health, 2019, 139(3), 153-161.
• *Pilot implementation of co-designed software for co-production in mental health care planning: a qualitative evaluation of staff perspectives. Farr M, Pithara C, Sullivan S, et al. Journal of Mental Health, 2019, 1-10.
• Co-production: Power, problems and possibilities. Gordon S, & O'Brien AJ. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(4), 1201-1203.
• Co-production: Putting principles into practice in mental health contexts. Roper C, Grey F, & Cadogan E. 2018.
• ‘Outside the Original Remit’: Co-production in UK mental health research, lessons from the field. Lambert N, & Carr S. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2018, 27(4), 1273-1281.