Peer Interventions for Health and Wellbeing : Research into Practice

This book introduces peer interventions (primarily peer education, peer counselling and peer support) for the positive promotion of health and well-being as alternative or parallel methods to traditional clinical processes for reaching hard-to-access populations. It is strongly evidence-based, with chapters discussing reviews of the evidence, followed by important papers with key messages for implementation. Furthermore, it describes implementation and evaluation procedures, both in resource-rich environments and in developing countries.

Key Features:

• Bridges the traditional gap between professional clinical advice and the “real world”, reaching where professionals cannot go.
• Brings together information about those interventions that are well evidenced.
• Distils information about how to implement interventions for medical professionals and paraprofessionals and charitable agencies and researchers.
• Presents a fine balance between research and implementation, with evidence-driven guidance.