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- This article explores peer-led interventions for individuals with schizophrenia that extend beyond standard medications and therapies.
- It emphasizes the principles and types of these interventions, highlighting how they contribute to recovery.
- Specifically, it focuses on three approaches: mutual support/self-help, consumer-operated services, and peer support services, along with evidence of their effectiveness.
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This article provides a snapshot of the nature, guiding philosophy, and empiric status of interventions for people with schizophrenia that go beyond traditional psychopharmacological and psychosocial treatments to include peer-led interventions. The authors discuss the nature and principles of peer-led interventions for people with schizophrenia and the types of peer-led interventions along with evidence of their effectiveness in fostering the recovery of people with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses. Focus is on 3 types of peer-led interventions: (1) mutual support/self-help, (2) consumer-operated services, and (3) peer support services.
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