Peer Support

Suicide “postvention”: what do we know about social support?

To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, researcher Hannah Scott shares the benefits and challenges of social support after a loss to suicide.

PhD

Peer Support

Collaborating with people with lived experience

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A lifeline in limbo but what will become of it?

It doesn’t take much to foster a sense connection and hope but after years of funding cuts and more to come this feels fragile, says Lisa Couperthwaite

Austerity

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Imposter syndrome and work – it’s not a ‘you’ problem

A McPin senior researcher discusses how imposter syndrome is related to discrimination in employment systems, and how peer support and lived experience could counteract it

Employment

Peer Support

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Why peer support could play a role in tackling unemployment: the Peer Support Employment Groups Evaluation

There are no easy solutions to long-term unemployment but peer support could help, says Dan Robotham

Employment

Peer Support

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Could training young people in peer support empower them during Covid-19?

What impact would training young people to support their peers during the pandemic have on their own wellbeing? Members of McPin's Young People's Network have helped develop a study to find out

Young People's Network

Covid-19

Peer Support

Children, young people and families

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Using a peer research approach to evaluate women-led peer support

Peer research not only enriched the findings from the Women Side by Side evaluation, but it also brought mutual benefits to everyone involved, says Tanya MacKay

Women

Peer Support

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Women Side by Side has helped raise awareness of mental health in a BAME community

Evaluating and facilitating a women-led peer support programme as a peer meant that Fozia Haider was able to experience the benefit of the approach first-hand

Women

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Overcoming imposter syndrome as a peer researcher

Our blogger reveals how her experiences of observing women-led peer support groups during the Women Side by Side evaluation helped dispel fears of feeling like a fraud

Women

Peer Support

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Women Side by Side shows what can happen if women are given the space to grow

Naima Iqbal shares her experiences of evaluating a women-led peer support programme, including how spending time with the women helped her own confidence to grow

Women

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Involving peers can enrich research when it’s done right

What factors are important for peer researchers to have in common with research participants? We asked Sarah Markham, an advisory group member, about her involvement in the evaluation of Women Side by Side

Women

Peer Support

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Principles tell us what good peer support for new mums looks like

Putting lived experience at the heart of a project about perinatal peer support has been key to its success, says Laura Wood

Maternal mental health

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What can women’s peer support projects teach us about being gender responsive and trauma-informed?

Andreja Mesaric, the project lead at McPin, outlines how we are evaluating a peer support programme for women who experience multiple disadvantage

Women

Trauma-informed

Peer Support

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This Time to Talk Day, take time to time to listen

When someone opens up about their mental health difficulties, my personal experience and McPin's research into peer support, has taught me that the most valuable thing is to listen, says Rose Thomson

Mental Health

Time to Talk Day

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