On the conversation about peer support

Thanks Larry Drain.

Hopeworks Community

Depending on who you talk to peer support is one of three things. To be fair some people believe it is more than one of these things. I suppose some people believe depending on the circumstances that it can be anyone of these three things.

1. Some people believe in the final analysis peer support really doesn’t make much of a difference. According to them it really doesn’t help the people it claims to help.

This belief comes in two forms: the benign and the malignant.

In the malignant form peer support doesn’t just not help people it harms them. It takes authority away from “professionals.” It teaches people to question rather than value the expertise of people who really have the training and skill to help. It teaches people that what they learn from their experiences and the experiences of others is equal to or even better than “medical…

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