Who Invented Peer Support Service Recovery Coaching

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American Journal of Preventive Medicine

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The growth of the peer workforce in behavioral health services is bringing opportunities to organizations and institutions that serve people living with mental and substance utilise disorders and their families. Peer workers are divers as people in recovery from mental illness or substance employ disorders or both that possess specific peer support competencies. Similar roles are identified for families of people in recovery. Peer support has been implemented in a vast range of behavioral health services, including in the relatively new utilize of peer support in criminal justice and emergency service environments. Behavioral health services are striving to integrate peer workers into their workforce to broaden existing service delivery, in part because peer support has demonstrated effectiveness in helping people with behavioral health conditions to connect to, engage in, and be active participants in handling and recovery support services across all levels of intendance. This article describes the experiences that organizations and their workforce, including peer workers, run across as they integrate peer support services into the array of behavioral health services. Specific attention is given to the similarities and differences of services provided past peers in mental health settings and substance use settings, and implications for time to come directions. The commodity likewise addresses the role of peer workers in integrated behavioral and concrete healthcare services.

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This article is part of a supplement entitled The Behavioral Health Workforce: Planning, Practise, and Grooming, which is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.Southward. Department of Health and Human Services.

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