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). 

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• 2020 SVHM staff publications
• 2019 SVHM staff publications

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Allies

• Lived experience allyship in mental health services: Recommendations for improved uptake of allyship roles in support of peer workforces. Reeves V, Loughhead M, Teague C et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 15:15
• 'We only come from one perspective': Exploring experiences of allies supporting expert by experience leadership in mental health education. Happell B, Gordon S, Sharrock J et al. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2023, 18:18
• The wisdom of hindsight: Allies reflections on their role in supporting the implementation of expert by experience positions in academia. Happell B, Gordon S, Sharrock J et al. Issues in mental health nursing, 2023:1-9
• 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.

Education

• Holding hope: Co-producing eating disorders education that integrates the lived experience voice to inform best practice. Brand G, Wise S, Calvert S. Journal of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing, 2023, 30(2):155-161
• Co-design and evaluation of a multidisciplinary teaching resource on mental health recovery involving people with lived experience. Arblaster K, Mackenzie L, Buus N et al. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 2023, 70(3):354-365

Implementation, integration and the workplace

• Actions targeting the integration of peer workforces in mental health organisations: A mixed-methods systematic review. Reeves V, McIntyre H, Loughhead M et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2024, 24(1)
• Supervision of the mental health lived experience workforce in Australia: A scoping review. Castles C, Stewart V, Slattery M et al. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2023, 21:21
• Staff experiences of integrating peer support workers and clinical staff in community-based residential mental health rehabilitation: A pragmatic grounded theory analysis. Parker S, Dark F, Newman E et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2023, 59(4):703-718
• Lived experience of peer-clinician collaboration in a mental health service. Phipps M, Barnes T, Morrison J. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2023, 32(2):615-619
• Comparative effectiveness of integrated peer support and clinical staffing models for community-based residential mental health rehabilitation: A prospective observational study. Parker S, Arnautovska U, Korman N et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2023, 59(3):459-470
• *Differences and similarities between consumer- and caregiver- or family-informed peer roles in mental health. Roennfeldt H, Chapman M, Runneboom C et al. Psychiatric services, 2023, 74(10):1037-1044
• Examining the workplace rights of mental health consumer workers. Katterl S. Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association, 2022, 46(5):550-554
• *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

Peer support

• Preventing, reducing, and attenuating restraint: A prospective controlled trial of the implementation of peer support in acute psychiatry. Badouin J, Bechdolf A, Bermpohl F et al. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023, 14
• Cost-effectiveness of peer-supported self-management for people discharged from a mental health crisis team: Methodological challenges and recommendations. Le Novere M, Johnson S, Lloyd-Evans B et al. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023, 14
• *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
• 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.

Recovery

• A mixed-method evaluation of peer-led education about attitudes towards consumers' recovery among mental health nurses working in acute inpatient psychiatric units. Sreeram A, Cross WM, Townsin L. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 2024, 01:01
• *Constructing recovery: A lived experience and post-structuralist exploration of how the meaning of personal recovery and rehabilitation has changed over time. Brasier C, Brophy L, Harvey C. Australasian Psychiatry, 2023:10398562231194193
• 'Like a family in the end': Improving mental health recovery skills through peer-to-peer communication in Darwin, Australia. Tari-Keresztes N, Girdler X, Gupta H et al. Health & social care in the community, 2022, 30(6):e5336-e5345

Research

• Mental health peer worker perspectives on resources developed from lived experience research findings: A Delphi study. Li S, Honey A, Coniglio F et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022, 19(7) 
• 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.
• 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. 

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
• 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)

Canada

• Peer support in mental health: Literature review. Shalaby RAH, & Agyapong VIO. JMIR Ment Health, 2020, 7(6), e15572.

Finland

• Facilitators and challenges of integrating experts by experience activity in mental health services: Experiences from Finland. Kivisto M, Martin M, Hautala S et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2023, 59(3):540-551

France

• Psychiatric advance directives facilitated by peer workers among people with mental illness: Economic evaluation of a randomized controlled trial (DAIP study). Loubiere S, Loundou A, Auquier P et al. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2023, 32
• Effect of psychiatric advance directives facilitated by peer workers on compulsory admission among people with mental illness: A randomized clinical trial. Tinland A, Loubiere S, Mougeot F et al. JAMA Psychiatry, 2022, 79(8):752-759

Germany

• Implementation of a peer support worker in a forensic psychiatric hospital in Germany-views of patients. Walde P, Hadala J, Peipe V et al. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023, 14

Netherlands

• The effectiveness of peer support for individuals with mental illness: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Smit D, Miguel C, Vrijsen JN et al. Psychological medicine, 2023, 53(11):5332-5341
• The involvement of service users and people with lived experience in mental health care innovation through design: Systematic review. Veldmeijer L, Terlouw G, Van Os J et al. JMIR Mental Health, 2023, 10:e46590
• *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.

New Zealand

• *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. 

Norway

• Managers as peer workers' allies: A qualitative study of managers' perceptions and actions to involve peer workers in Norwegian mental health and substance use services. Akerblom KB, Mohn-Haugen T, Agdal R et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2023, 17(1) 
• Peer workers in co-production and co-creation in mental health and substance use services: A scoping review. Akerblom KB, Ness O. Administration and policy in mental health, 2023, 50(2):296-316

Singapore

• The impact of peer support work on the mental health of peer support specialists. Poremski D, Kuek JHL, Yuan Q et al. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2022, 16(1) 
• 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. 

United Kingdom

• The effectiveness, implementation, and experiences of peer support approaches for mental health: A systematic umbrella review. Cooper RE, Saunders KRK, Greenburgh A et al. BMC Medicine, 2024, 22(1)
• Embedding physical activity into community-based peer support groups for those severely affected by mental illness. Healy LC, Benkwitz A, McVinnie Z et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023, 20(3)
• *Outcomes of peer-provided individual placement and support services in a mental health peer-run vocational program. Cook JA, Steigman PJ, Swarbrick M et al. Psychiatric services, 2023, 74(5):480-487
• Peer supporters' mental health and emotional wellbeing needs: Key factors and opportunities for co-produced training. Kane L, Portman RM, Eberhardt J et al. Health Expectations, 2023, 26(6):2387-2395
• Using the matrixed multiple case study methodology to understand site differences in the outcomes of a hybrid type 1 trial of a peer-led healthy lifestyle intervention for people with serious mental illness. Tuda D, Bochicchio L, Stefancic A et al. Translational behavioral medicine, 2023, 13(12):919-927
• The impact of working as a peer worker in mental health services: A longitudinal mixed methods study. Gillard S, Foster R, White S et al. BMC Psychiatry, 2022, 22(1) 
• 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. 
• 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.

United States

• *Dual relationships in mental health peer support. Knopes J, D'Egale-Flanagan M. Psychiatric services, 2023, 74(12):1296-1298
• Programmatic support for peer specialists that serve transition age youth living with serious mental illness: Perspectives of program managers from two southern California counties. Magana C, Gilmer TP, Munson MR et al. Community Mental Health Journal, 2023, 59(8):1498-1507
• *Mental health recovery: The effectiveness of peer services in the community. Kowalski MA. Community Mental Health Journal, 2020, 56(3), 568-580.
• *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.
• Creating the conditions for successful integration of peer support specialists into research studies. Hendrix-Brown RM, & Bourdeau GR. Psychiatric Services, 2019, appi.ps.70401.

Multi-national

• *"A light at the end of the tunnel": Experiences with peer specialists in the open dialogue model. Friesen P, Wusinich C, Lynch K et al. Psychiatric Services, 2024, 75(3):283-286
• Development of the UPSIDES global mental health training programme for peer support workers: Perspectives from stakeholders in low, middle and high-income countries. Nixdorf R, Kotera Y, Baillie D et al. PLoS ONE, 2024, 19(2 February) 
• Perspectives of key informants before and after implementing UPSIDES peer support in mental health services: Qualitative findings from an international multi-site study. Haun M, Adler Ben-Dor I, Hall C et al. BMC Health Services Research, 2024, 24(1):159
• Societal and organisational influences on implementation of mental health peer support work in low-income and high-income settings: A qualitative focus group study. Ramesh M, Charles A, Grayzman A et al. BMJ Open, 2023, 13(8) 
• *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
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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.
• 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.