From Open Excellence: “Beyond Well: Science With Sheila Hamilton is here to explore our understanding of mental health challenges and what we’re learning about ways to help ourselves and others navigate and grow through them.
In this episode, Sheila talks with psychologist and researcher Gail Hornstein, PhD, about her research into what makes the Hearing Voices approach so healing for the people who participate in its peer support groups. She is simultaneously training new group facilitators across the United States and interviewing support group participants to better understand the key elements of the approach that make it so successful in helping people cope and find meaning in the experience of hearing voices and other unusual sensory experiences. She hopes her research will help inspire communities across the nation to fund facilitator trainings and host support group meetings in their neighborhoods and health and social service programs.”
