ArticleBorderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation2020
Using peer workers with lived experience to support the treatment of borderline personality disorder: a qualitative study of consumer, carer and clinician perspectives.
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- 'ALL ABOUT MY IDEAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE': Users, family members and experts by experience discussing a co-designed service.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Research Directions for Leveraging and Supporting the Lived Experience of Mental Illness within Psychology.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Peer Workers in Co-production and Co-creation in Mental Health and Substance Use Services: A Scoping Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2023Article
- Competing allegiance in an unclear role: Peer and non-peer understanding of peer support in Massachusetts, United States.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- Evaluation of a skills-based peer-led art therapy online-group for people with emotion dysregulation.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2022Article
- The impact of peer support work on the mental health of peer support specialists.International journal of mental health systems · 2022Article
- Mental health workers' perspectives on peer support in high-, middle- and low income settings: a focus group study.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Peer Workers in the Czech Republic.Community mental health journal · 2022Article
- A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis of the Way Peer Support Specialist Roles Change Over Time in a Psychiatric Hospital Setting in Asia.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPeer support is a recovery oriented approach where consumers and carers are introduced to people with lived experience of the disorder who have recovered. Paid roles within health services for such consumer peer workers and carer peer workers (or 'specialists') are increasingly common. To date specific studies on such peer support for consumers with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and their carers has not been conducted.
methodsThis qualitative study used interviews to explore perceptions and models of peer support for BPD from the perspectives of 12 consumers, 12 carers, and 12 mental health professionals. Participant responses were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis within a phenomenological methodology.
resultsAll groups described how consumer peer workers may provide hope, connection, and validation to a consumer's lived experience. Offering both traditional mental health treatment plus peer support, and giving consumers choice regarding a consumer peer worker was welcomed. Differences in opinion were found regarding the consumer peer worker's role in relation to the mental health team, including whether consumer peer workers should access medical records. Perspectives differed regarding the consumer peer worker and carer peer worker positions, highlighting potential role confusion. Carers discussed the value of receiving support from carer peer workers and consumer peer workers. Mental health professionals described how consumer peer workers can experience workplace stigma and problems with boundary setting, and acknowledged a need for peer workers to be valued by having a duty of care and confidentiality code to follow and be offered supervision.
conclusionsTwo models of peer support for BPD emerged: an integrated model where consumer peer workers work within the mental health team, and a complementary model where consumer peer workers are separate from the mental health team. Based on these findings we provide recommendations for services to help support such peer work for consumers with BPD and their carers.
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