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Volume 13, Issue 3
10 August 2009
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Review Article| August 10 2009

Putting the ‘lunatics’ in charge of the ‘asylum’? Handing over the keys of power to peer support volunteers Available to Purchase

Alex Duffield
Alex Duffield
Peer‐Run Birkbeck Counselling Association
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-5533
Print ISSN: 1366-6282
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2009
A Life in the Day (2009) 13 (3): 41–43.
https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200900032

Alex Duffield describes a fascinating project at Bromley Mind to train and support people with lived experience of mental health difficulties ‐ peer support volunteers ‐ to run ‘drop‐in’ sessions at their centres.

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Peer support volunteers, Mental health, Lived experience, User‐run services
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