Autistic-Delivered Peer Support: A Feasibility Study

Peer support has been an undeveloped pathway for filling the service gap and to generate employment opportunities for autistic individuals. Peer supports have been deployed widely in mental health and among veterans and understanding the utility of this service modality among autistic individuals il...

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Autores principales: Shea, Lindsay L., Wong, Mi-Yeet, Song, Wei, Kaplan, Katy, Uppal, Disha, Salzer, Mark S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9652131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36369602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05816-4
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description Peer support has been an undeveloped pathway for filling the service gap and to generate employment opportunities for autistic individuals. Peer supports have been deployed widely in mental health and among veterans and understanding the utility of this service modality among autistic individuals illuminates opportunities for research, policy, and practice. This study examined characteristics of participants in an autistic-delivered peer support program and reports on use of and satisfaction with the program. Half of autistic participants had a co-occurring mental health diagnosis. Participants reported multiple areas of unmet needs and participant satisfaction with the program was high (90%). The findings of this study point toward autistic-delivered peer support as a promising avenue for future development. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-022-05816-4.
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spelling pubmed-96521312022-11-14 Autistic-Delivered Peer Support: A Feasibility Study Shea, Lindsay L. Wong, Mi-Yeet Song, Wei Kaplan, Katy Uppal, Disha Salzer, Mark S. J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Peer support has been an undeveloped pathway for filling the service gap and to generate employment opportunities for autistic individuals. Peer supports have been deployed widely in mental health and among veterans and understanding the utility of this service modality among autistic individuals illuminates opportunities for research, policy, and practice. This study examined characteristics of participants in an autistic-delivered peer support program and reports on use of and satisfaction with the program. Half of autistic participants had a co-occurring mental health diagnosis. Participants reported multiple areas of unmet needs and participant satisfaction with the program was high (90%). The findings of this study point toward autistic-delivered peer support as a promising avenue for future development. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10803-022-05816-4. Springer US 2022-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9652131/ /pubmed/36369602 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05816-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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