How to Build Peer Support for Incarcerated Persons with Mental Illness
RIWC_PARA_A090 - Peer Support and Mental Health
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Peer Support Project under the Recovery Model for Individuals with Mental Health Challenges
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Sung Hor Mui and Lee Mang YingService ManagerYuet Hang Home
Social Worker ISunrise Centre
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Social Welfare Department and Non-governmental Organizations social and rehabilitation services in the community
Hospital Authority statutory body providing comprehensive in-patients and out-patients, community outreach services
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Mental Health Services in Hong Kong
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NGOSWD
Paradigm shift
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Recovery in Mental Health
the development of new meaning and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of psychiatric
disability (William Anthony, 1993)
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Mental Health Peer Support Peer support project in Hong Kong• 3-year project “Mindset” in 2012• 2-year pilot project on Peer support service in
community psychiatric service unit in 2016
10 Guiding Principles of Recovery (SAMHSA, 2012)• Hope• Person-driven
• Peer Support• Strength• Holistic• Many Pathways…………
Reduce Self-stigma through Self-disclosure
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• “I realize I was accepted by others, and I experienced reducing self-stigma.”
Kammy’s story as a Peer Support Worker
• “I am an ordinary person, that is people with mental illness are not shameful.”
Holistic View of Personal Recovery Journey
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• “I do not only remember symptoms and treatment, but also people and things worth to be memorized…my family and my friends.”
Kammy’s story as a Peer Support Worker
• “the experience of mental illness was just a part of my life”
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Challenge Social Stigma Promote Social Inclusion
• “students were surprised that Kammy was cheerful and friendly, they used to think mental patients were lack of facial expression”
Kammy’s story as a Peer Support Worker
• “ it was hard to imagine a mental patient could complete a University course.”
Mary’s story as a Service User
The only person in this world
She felt lonely
Shared experience makes normalizing and supported
“Oh yes, I had this!”
Mary’s story as a Service User
Enhanced her sense of conformity. She was not different and alone
Mutuality of relationship
Give something back
Mary’s story as a Service User
She was not only a service receiver anymore
Conclusion
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• Building relationships • Social connection• Reciprocal - giving and
receiving
• Personal empowerment• Reduce self and social
stigma• Holistic perspective on
Recovery
Thank you!
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