Hello BACS Faculty
This is my first posting for the "Let's Get Published" Blog for BACS. I hope that we can begin to share ideas about research projects, journal articles etc. Lisa
posted by lisa schmidt at
12:58 PM
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Lisa,
I am subscribed to your feed and I will be interested to see how it develops. See you in a few weeks!
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Jean-Claude Bradley, at 4:50 PM
One of my research interest concerns consumer providers. Increasingly in the US, people who have experienced serious mental illness are becoming employed as providers of conventional mental health services such as case management, crisis counseling and community outreach. Consumer provided service outcomes have been at least comparable to outcomes achieved by non-consumer professional staff. When consumer provided social support is added to conventional services, recipient use of hospitals and crisis centers go down and use of needed community mental health services increases. The inclusion of consumers on treatment teams also increases staff's belief that recovery from mental illnesses is possible.
There are several consumer provider training programs that are becoming more widely available. These programs include the Georgia Peer Certificate Program (Sabin & Daniels, 2003), META Services Peer Employment Program (Ashcraft & Anthony, 2005), and the Kansas Consumer as Provider Program (McDiarmid, Rapp & Ratzlaff, 2005). The training aims to maximize the positive impact of CPs on service recipients and coworkers across a variety of systems of care.
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lisa schmidt, at 11:06 AM
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