Overview
- Discusses the evidence base and clinical implications for a peer support model of care
- Designed to be accessible for medical professionals across specialties
- Written by experts in the field
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book serves as a guide for all clinicians seeking to improve healthcare outcomes by implementing peer support in the treatment and management of medical and mental health conditions. The book begins with a chapter that describes the importance of peers and how peers are increasingly being utilized to improve medical outcomes. Each chapter opens with an introductory section, include tables and figures, and ends with a summary section for quick reference. Written by experts in the field, this resource covers the clinical implications for peer support in substance misuse, chronic medical conditions, in special populations, and mental illness generally. Each chapter is designed specifically to be accessible for a broad clinical audience of experts and non-experts across medical specialties.
Peer Support in Medicine is an excellent resource for all clinicians seeking to improve healthcare outcomes using the gains made by the peer support model, including psychiatrists, psychologists, healthcare researchers, and medical students across specialties, nurses, social workers, and all others.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jonathan D. Avery
Director of Addition Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peer Support in Medicine
Book Subtitle: A Quick Guide
Editors: Jonathan D. Avery
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58660-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58659-1Published: 23 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58660-7Published: 05 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 184
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Pediatrics, General Practice / Family Medicine, Public Health