Experimenting with Peer Health Mediators:

A Tumultuous Revolution

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Experimenting with Peer Health Mediators: A Tumultuous Revolution: A comprehensive and objective review of this delicate topic

Collection: Polémiques
Publisher: DOIN
Pages: 272
Format: 15 x 21 cm
ISBN : 978-2-7040-1472-9
ISBN élec : 978-2-7040-1492-7
Printed in: French
Publication date: 17/02/2016


"Health peer mediator”. This expression denotes the French version of a programme in Quebec which gives hospitals the opportunity to hire former patients in order to better care for current patients. This revolutionary project is positioned within a more general movement for the emancipation of patients, with recognition of their right to autonomy and a respectable status. However, like all revolutions, this one is not all roses, and resistance, even opposition, has been abundant: the recognition of mediators as professionals and no longer as users, health personnel’s fears of this new organisation, criticism on the unwise use of financial resources, the risks of mediators being exposed to the disease, etc.

However, this experience carried out in three French regions has also resulted in a number of positive perspectives: recognition of mediators through their work, recognition of their skills among their counterparts, real help given to patients who feel more comfortable with someone who has experienced what they are going through, etc.

This book takes stock of this programme with transparency to allow readers to formulate their own opinions.


Table of Contents

▪ Experiences outside France

▪ Controversies around the experimental programme

▪ Training mediators

▪ Suitable pedagogical tools

▪ About mediator reports

▪ What programme for what team

▪ Professional careers and peer health mediators

▪ The feel-good factor of mediators

▪ Mediators and stigmatisation in a psychiatric sector unit

▪ Experts and laypersons: a line blurred by the professionalisation of peer support workers

▪ Experiential know-how and the phenomenological approach in psychiatry and mental health

▪ Experiential know-how in deconstruction

▪ Quantitative assessment of experiments

▪ Conclusion