Mental health peer support relationship: a realist informed qualitative meta synthesis
Corinna Hackmann, Amanda Green, Ruby Pease, Izobel Clegg, Melanie Handley · 2025
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Description
Corinna Hackmann and co-authors synthesize, in a 2025 review, studies on the bond between mental health peer supporters and the people they help. Peer support draws on shared lived experience, yet how its relationships drive gains was unclear. The team merged findings from eighteen studies into a program theory of what works, for whom, and why.
Five shared traits marked the helpful relationships: accepting, personal practice, empowering, available, and reciprocal. Together they form a frame the authors call APPEAR. Where those traits held, people gained in self-acceptance, confidence, hope, self-expression, relationships, and skills. The frame gives services a clear base for training and judging peer work.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Corinna Hackmann, Amanda Green, Ruby Pease, Izobel Clegg, Melanie Handley |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |