What do peer support workers do? A job description

What do peer support workers do? A job description

BACKGROUND The extant literature suggests that poorly defined job roles make it difficult for peer support workers to be successful, and hinder their integration into multi-disciplinary workplace teams. This article uses data gathered as part of a participatory evaluation of a peer support program at a psychiatric tertiary care facility to specify the work that peers do. METHODS Data were gat...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

National Curriculum: What Do International Experiences Say?

The conceptions, practices and efforts of some education systems in ten countries and four continents of the world, in area of national curriculum, have been reviewed and analyzed in this inquiry to represent a brief look of their experiences and obtain some guidelines for delineating and developing national curriculum. The methodology in this inquiry has been descriptive and analytical researc...

Superior Capsule Reconstruction: What Do We Know?

The management of irreparable rotator cuff tears remains challenging. Since its introduction by Mihata in 2012, superiorcapsule reconstruction (SCR) has grown in popularity at an astonishingly rapid rate. The aim of this article is to providea comprehensive review of the available literature, in order to highlight what has so far been published on SCR,covering all aspects including biomechanica...

What do GPs value about their job ?

In the mid 1990's, there was a shift in policy emphasis in the UK from policies that tried to influence the behaviour of GPs through financial incentives (e.g. the 1990 GP Contract), to policies that tried to improve the professional working lives of GPs to improve recruitment, retention and morale (e.g. changes to out of hours arrangements). This highlights the role non-pecuniary job character...