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Published Online: 5 June 2024

Peer-Run Respite Approaches to Supporting People Experiencing an Emotional Crisis

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Research shows that guests experience peer-run respites as empowering and safe places where they feel more seen, heard, and respected than they do in conventional settings. This column describes the successful and unique processes of peer-run respites that support guests in emotional crisis and facilitate healing. In a discussion informed by their experiences and the literature, the authors examine how peer-run respites differ from conventional psychiatric crisis response services in their basic philosophy: how emotional crisis is understood, the goal of crisis response, how trauma is viewed, the importance of self-determination, power dynamics, and relationality.

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Pages: 1163 - 1166
PubMed: 38835253

History

Received: 4 December 2023
Revision received: 27 February 2024
Accepted: 3 April 2024
Published online: 5 June 2024
Published in print: November 01, 2024

Keywords

  1. crisis intervention
  2. community mental health services
  3. peer respites
  4. peer-run services
  5. alternative to hospitalization
  6. crisis services

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Lauren Spiro, M.A. [email protected]
Lauren Spiro and Associates (Spiro); Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, and Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey (Swarbrick).
Margaret Swarbrick, Ph.D., F.A.O.T.A.
Lauren Spiro and Associates (Spiro); Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, Freehold, and Center of Alcohol and Substance Use Studies, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey (Swarbrick).

Notes

Send correspondence to Ms. Spiro ([email protected]). Morgan C. Shields, Ph.D., Jonathan P. Edwards. Ph.D., L.C.S.W., and Keris Jän Myrick, M.B.A., M.S., are editors of this column. This column was accepted under the editorship of Nev Jones, Ph.D.

Competing Interests

The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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The views in this column represent the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of Lauren Spiro and Associates, Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, or Rutgers University.

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