Wellbeing
When Lived Experience Becomes a Job: The Rise of the Peer Specialist
For most of the history of mental health care, lived experience was something that could disqualify you from professional authority. A history of psychiatric hospitalization, addiction, hallucinations, incarceration, or other serious behavioral health challenges could close doors. The assumption was fairly straightforward. Professionals possessed expertise because they had been trained. Patients received that expertise because […]
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