Peer Support in Mental Health: Hearing Voices groups

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Claire Bien
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH)
Lívia Sicaroni Rufato
Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5686-3102
Graziela do Carmo Reis
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH)
Clarissa Mendonça Corradi-Webster
Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto - USP, Universidade de São Paulo
Rossana Maria Seabra Sade
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências
Mark Napoli Costa
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH)

Abstract

Peer support is considered a recent practice in community mental health and is structured as people with lived experience of mental suffering support people with similar experiences. In this sense, this article aims to analyze the peer support carried out in a hearing voices group held in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of São Paulo. To this, a qualitative study was conducted in which 10 meetings of the peer support group with theoretical support from the International Movement of Voice Hearers were recorded and analyzed. Four peer support actions were identified: 1) build a welcoming space in the group, ensuring that all views are respected and support stories of suffering from other participants; 2) adopt a posture of curiosity in relation to the voices, trying to understand them better, offering new meanings for the experiences, collaborating in the construction of new forms of relationship with the voices; 3) the peers act to establish bonds and expand support networks and 4) instill hope in sharing success stories and in reporting gains and changes they had after they started participating in the group. The possibility of being in a peer support group, can collaborate with the promotion of people's autonomy in addition to providing a space where people can establish relationships of trust. Mental health services need to ensure greater autonomy for peers to collaborate in recovery processes

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BIEN, Claire; SICARONI RUFATO, Lívia; DO CARMO REIS, Graziela; MENDONÇA CORRADI-WEBSTER, Clarissa; SEABRA SADE, Rossana Maria; NAPOLI COSTA, Mark. Peer Support in Mental Health: Hearing Voices groups. Brazilian Journal of Mental Health, [S. l.], v. 13, n. 36, p. 156–174, 2021. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/cbsm/article/view/76826. Acesso em: 7 dec. 2025.
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Vol. 13 No. 36 (2021): Mental Health Services, Programs, and Policies Oriented by Recovery and Citizenship Around the World - Part II
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