Delman Jonathan, Klodnick Vanessa V
Department of Psychiatry, The Learning and Working During the Transition to Adulthood Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, 12 Summer St., Stoneham, MA, 02180, USA.
Thresholds Research, 4101 North Ravenswood Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60613, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2017 Oct;53(7):811-822. doi: 10.1007/s10597-016-0059-6. Epub 2016 Oct 22.
Peer providers are a promising practice for transition-age youth community mental health treatment engagement and support, yet little is known about the experience of being a young adult peer provider or what helps to make an individual in this role successful. Utilizing a capital theory lens, this study uses data from focus groups (two with young adult peer providers and two with their supervisors) to examine facilitators of young adult peer provider success in community mental health treatment settings. Eight factors were identified as critical to young adult peer provider on-the-job success: persistence, job confidence, resilience, job training, skilled communications with colleagues, regular and individualized supervision, support from colleagues, and family support. Findings suggest that young adult peer providers may benefit immensely from an agency level focus on fostering social organizational capital as well as more individualized efforts to increase cultural, social, and psychological capital through training and supervision.
同伴提供者对于处于过渡年龄段的青少年参与社区心理健康治疗和获得支持来说是一种很有前景的做法，但对于成为一名年轻的同伴提供者的经历或有助于使个人在这一角色中取得成功的因素却知之甚少。本研究运用资本理论视角，利用焦点小组的数据（两组来自年轻的同伴提供者，两组来自他们的主管）来考察年轻的同伴提供者在社区心理健康治疗环境中取得成功的促进因素。八个因素被确定为对年轻的同伴提供者工作成功至关重要：坚持、工作信心、适应力、工作培训、与同事的熟练沟通、定期和个性化的监督、同事的支持以及家庭支持。研究结果表明，年轻的同伴提供者可能会从机构层面注重培养社会机构资本以及通过培训和监督增加文化、社会和心理资本的更个性化努力中受益匪浅。
