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2. Peer support - Wikipedia

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   Peer support can occur within, outside or around traditional mental health services and programs, between two people or in groups. Peer support is increasingly being offered through digital health like text messaging and smartphone apps. [31] Peer support is a key concept in the recovery approach [32] and in consumer-operated services programs ...

3. National Alliance on Mental Illness - Wikipedia

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   The NAMI Peer-to-Peer is an eight-week educational program aimed at adults diagnosed with a mental illness. The NAMI Peer-to-Peer program describes the course as a holistic approach to recovery through lectures, discussions, interactive exercises, and teaching stress management techniques.

4. Peer support specialist - Wikipedia

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   A peer support specialist is a person with "lived experience" who has been trained to support those who struggle with mental health, psychological trauma, or substance use. Their personal experience of these challenges provide peer support specialists with expertise that professional training cannot replicate.

5. WHO makes loneliness a global health priority with new ... - AOL

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   Roughly a billion people – 1 in 8 – are living with a mental health problem, a quarter of them adolescents, he said. Loneliness and social isolation can also lead to poor physical health.

6. GROW (support group) - Wikipedia

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   Grow is a peer support and mutual-aid organization for recovery from, and prevention of, mental illness. Grow was founded in Sydney, Australia in 1957 by Father Cornelius B. "Con" Keogh, a Roman Catholic priest, and psychiatric patients who sought help with their mental illness in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). Consequently, Grow adapted many of AA ...

7. Self-help groups for mental health - Wikipedia

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   Mutual support or peer support is a process by which people voluntarily come together to help each other address common problems. Mutual support is social, emotional or instrumental support that is mutually offered or provided by persons with similar mental health conditions where there is some mutual agreement on what is helpful.