Factors Supporting the Employment of Young Adult Peer Providers: Perspectives of Peers and Supervisors
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2016-10-22Keywords
Community HealthHealth Services Administration
Mental and Social Health
Mental Disorders
Psychiatry and Psychology
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Peer providers are a promising practice for transition-age youth community mental health treatment engagement and support, yet little is known about the experience of being a young adult peer provider or what helps to make an individual in this role successful. Utilizing a capital theory lens, this study uses data from focus groups (two with young adult peer providers and two with their supervisors) to examine facilitators of young adult peer provider success in community mental health treatment settings. Eight factors were identified as critical to young adult peer provider on-the-job success: persistence, job confidence, resilience, job training, skilled communications with colleagues, regular and individualized supervision, support from colleagues, and family support. Findings suggest that young adult peer providers may benefit immensely from an agency level focus on fostering social organizational capital as well as more individualized efforts to increase cultural, social, and psychological capital through training and supervision.Source
Community Ment Health J. 2016 Oct 22. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1007/s10597-016-0059-6Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/29015PubMed ID
27770306Related Resources
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10.1007/s10597-016-0059-6