Tag: peers

Risk Management vs. Dignity of Risk

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What does “risk” really mean? Is it something to be afraid of and avoided at all costs, or something to be embraced?

Bring in the Peer!

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Around the country, consumers of the public mental health system speak of ‘empowerment’, ‘recovery’ and ‘independence’ while being disempowered, and made reliant on a system that uses the word ‘recovery’ as only a buzzword. How can Peer provided services help?

On Creative Maladjustment and Rethinking Psychiatry

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On this day January 16 2012, we commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  and as such, many thoughts are...