What is it about?
Peer support is widely touted as important in the recovery process. However, few papers describe methods for improving peer support. This paper provides specific suggestions for increasing and improving peer interaction in residential lettings. The authors draw on years of practical and research experience to illustrate ways of involving peers in decision making, conflict resolution, managing residents' crises, house management, and other activities.
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Why is it important?
Peer support is a broad concept that has not been well defined despite widespread use. Even less common are identification of strategies for enhancing peer support. This paper provides new ways of thinking about common issues in milieu settings from a social model, peer oriented perspective.
Perspectives
Based on 30 years of clinical experience it is clear to me that practitioners and other service providers often talk about empowerment of peers do little beyond that. This paper provides a new way of thinking about residents and ways they can help each other.
Dr Douglas L Polcin
Public Health Institute
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This page is a summary of: Maximizing Social Model Principles in Residential Recovery Settings, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, October 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2014.960112.
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