How Peer Support Complements Clinical Practices-View Presentation

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The webinar, hosted by Tristan Grindow and led by Patrick Hendry, explores how peer support can enhance clinical practices. Accredited for CME and ANCC credit, the session emphasizes including peer support in mental health settings. Patrick Hendry, with over 27 years in peer advocacy, outlines that peer support, grounded in shared lived experiences, is non-clinical and aims to support recovery outside the traditional medical model. Peer support workers help with goals, provide emotional backing, and assist with resources, enhancing trust and reducing hospitalization rates. Despite challenges like non-peer staff attitudes, peer support uplifts patients and restructures clinical perceptions toward holistic, recovery-oriented approaches. Training and supervision are crucial, ensuring that peer support remains a non-clinical supplement enhancing treatment and reducing costs. Peer support roles must be clearly defined to prevent liability issues, and supervision needs to be familiar with peer methodologies. Progress is steadily being made across various states towards establishing standards and certifications for peer support specialists, reflecting its vital role in transforming mental health care systems.

Keywords

peer support

mental health

clinical practices

recovery

Patrick Hendry

holistic approach

CME credit

training and supervision

peer advocacy