Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Research on Social Work Practice
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Klein, A. R.
Right arrow Articles by Whitecraft, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Significance of Peer Social Support With Dually Diagnosed Clients: Findings From a Pilot Study

Amelia Rocco Klein

JFK Community Mental Health Center, Philadelphia

Ram A. Cnaan

University of Pennsylvania

Jeanie Whitecraft

Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania Friend's Connection

This article examines a special peersocial support program, which provides support to high-risk dually diagnosed chents. A pilot study of 10 randomly selected clients in the study group, and 51 in the comparison group, who had been in community care 1 year prior to this investigation was carried out. Service was provided for a 6-month period Findings suggest that coupling peer social support with intensive case management is associated with positive system outcomes. The number of crisis events of the comparison group far exceeded that of the study group. The number of hospitalizations was dramatically lower for the study group. Chents in the study group reported improved quality of life and perceived their physical and emotional well-being as improved over the course of the study. This pilot study indicates that peer support has a potential of improving system and clients' outcome; however, further replication is required.

Research on Social Work Practice, Vol. 8, No. 5, 529-551 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/104973159800800503
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Psychiatr. Serv.Home page
M. Chinman, A. Lucksted, R. Gresen, M. Davis, M. Losonczy, B. Sussner, and L. Martone
Early Experiences of Employing Consumer-Providers in the VA
Psychiatr Serv, November 1, 2008; 59(11): 1315 - 1321.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Qualitative Social WorkHome page
E. R. Hardiman
Networks of Caring: A Qualitative Study of Social Support in Consumer-run Mental Health Agencies
Qualitative Social Work, December 1, 2004; 3(4): 431 - 448.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 BMJHome page
E. L Simpson and A. O House
Involving users in the delivery and evaluation of mental health services: systematic review
BMJ, November 30, 2002; 325(7375): 1265 - 1265.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Arch Fam MedHome page
E. M. Hunkeler, J. F. Meresman, W. A. Hargreaves, B. Fireman, W. H. Berman, A. J. Kirsch, J. Groebe, S. W. Hurt, P. Braden, M. Getzell, et al.
Efficacy of Nurse Telehealth Care and Peer Support in Augmenting Treatment of Depression in Primary Care
Arch Fam Med, August 1, 2000; 9(8): 700 - 708.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]