Dual Relationships in Mental Health Peer Support

What is it about?

People with mental illness are increasingly utilizing peer support to help manage their conditions. Relationships between peer support workers and the people served are unique, based on mutual sharing of lived experiences to guide recovery. These relationships differ from those between clinicians and patients, where mutual sharing of experiences typically does not occur and where clinicians have more power in the relationship. These differences are not widely explored in existing research, and as such, the authors explore these differences and consider the ethical dimensions of care in which people with mental illness care for one another.

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