Increasing Youth Peer Workers' Impact Through Integration: Peer Worker Perspectives on Best Practice in Youth Mental Health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Embedding youth peer workers within youth mental health services is critical to integrating the personal lived experience of recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approaches in care and helping young people to make sense of the system. However, research into the optimal engagement of youth peer workers is lacking, which limits opportunities for integrating personal lived experience within care. This paper evaluated peer workers' experiences of integration into youth mental health services to identify strategies for optimal integration.

Methods

Best-fit framework synthesis was used to investigate peer worker experiences within youth mental health services using data collected from 12 peer workers through semi-structured interviews. Themes were coded according to th

SUBMITTER: Singh R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11913725 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature