Frequently Asked Questions View More What is Forum? Forum is a marketplace that connects people with facilitated peer support groups to help them navigate life’s challenges, such as grief, relationships, parenting, and career. How do Forum groups work?
The effectiveness of the peer-group intervention shown here provides evidence for the success of psychosocial support and care for orphans. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Dr. Benjamin Atwine for allowing the use of some of the questions developed by him in the previous study (...
This qualitative study examined the questions of what cancer support groups provide that other supportive relationships do not, and what the self perceived consequences are of support group attendance. Nine representative Australian cancer peer support groups, consisting of a total of 93 interviewees, ...
These findings based on sociometric measures raised two questions about the Peer Play Scale. First, if the Peer Play Scale represents socially competent behavior with peers, would children who engage in structurally complex play also have higher peer acceptance and engage in prosocial, nonaggressive ...
Notes in the peers' activity logs indicated that they perceived themselves to be engaged in advocacy work when they did things like an- swer questions or provide information to clients, run a peer support group, work with clients around goal set- ting and confidence building, and...
“A big part of a peer supporter’s job is utilizing self-disclosure to the benefit of the people we serve,” said Guyton Colantuono, executive director of Project Return Peer Support Network, “because it can decrease the isolating factor of living with mental health [challenges], ...
Specifically, it examines homophobic name-calling behavior and peer group contextual and socialization effects, as well as the influence of masculinity attitudes, general bullying perpetration, and victimization in the transmission of these behaviors. This study examined these research questions by utilizing...
What is peer support? These companies often use the term peer support to describe their services. Most people who hear this probably imagine a reputable in-person or virtual group run by a mental health provider or organization. TheNational Alliance on Mental Illness' peer-to-peer program, for...
There are questions about whether the tool, which could be used by editors to find and shortlist peer reviewers, would disadvantage inexperienced candidates or those in certain locations. Dalmeet Singh Chawla World View | 16 April 2024 Structure peer review to make it more robust Everyone wh...
get validation for their feelings and gain perspective.18 Such programs can also serve as a platform for parents' questions and provide encouragement for parents to become advocates for their babies and themselves.1 There is now a growing body of evidence of the benefits that peer support provides...