2023-09-10 17:55:24
The experience of the course of care in psychiatry of the MSP allows them to have a link with the different patient and to bring specific elements to accompany them in their recovery. 250064219/Halfpoint – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – The diploma of “peer caregivers” does not make them caregivers but allows them to bring unique experience.
In recent years, a new profession has appeared in certain psychiatric services and centres: professional peer helpers, also called peer health mediators (PSM) in mental health depending on the course they have followed. Their particularity? Having first experienced the psychiatric care system as patients, before working there. An experience of the disease that the peer helper will use in his practice with patients, but also caregivers and health students through training activities. “The bet of MSP innovation is that ‘experiential knowledge’, while neither scholarly, nor academic, nor scientific, nor scholastic, is nevertheless valuable and useful in therapeutic work and makes it possible to improve the quality of care”summarizes Lise Demailly, sociologist at the University of Lille, in an article published in the journal Rhizome in 2020.
Emmanuelle Nicou-Douriez, MSP and founder of the Psy’hope association, visited “of the toga…
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