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Peer support workers´ role and expertise and interprofessional learning in mental health care:: a scoping review
University West, Department of Health Sciences, Section for health promotion and care sciences. (LOVHH)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4900-9570
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (SWE).
Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (SWE).
University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, Division of Psychology, Pedagogy and Sociology. (LOV)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9358-5519
2022 (English)In: Journal of Interprofessional Care, ISSN 1356-1820, E-ISSN 1469-9567, Vol. 36, no 6, p. 828-838Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Interprofessional learning (IPL), which is learning arising from the interaction between representatives of two or more professions, has not been studied extensively in relation to peer support workers (PSWs) in mental health care teams. PSWs support others who face challenges with their own experience of similar challenges of mental health problems. The role of PSWs has been studied in mental health care interprofessional teams. However, researchers have not paid attention to IPL where the PSWs contribute their knowledge. This paper is a scoping review that aims to highlight existing knowledge of the PSW role and expertise in IPL in the context of mental health care. The findings show knowledge of (a) the key factors and challenges when interprofessional teams include the PSW role, (b) the legitimacy of the PSWs' role and expertise, and (c) the benefits of the PSW role. A knowledge gap was identified of teams' use of PSWs' expertise and its implications for IPL.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2022. Vol. 36, no 6, p. 828-838
Keywords [en]
Scoping review, interprofessional learning, interprofessional teamwork, peer support worker, expertise
National Category
Nursing Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Research subject
NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-18187DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2021.2014796ISI: 000751706100001PubMedID: 35129027Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85128230034OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-18187DiVA, id: diva2:1647764
Available from: 2022-03-28 Created: 2022-03-28 Last updated: 2025-01-09
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1. Interprofessionellt lärande i teamarbete: Hur kontroverser, genus och erfarenhetsbaseradexpertis kan bidra till lärande i psykiatrisk vård
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Interprofessionellt lärande i teamarbete: Hur kontroverser, genus och erfarenhetsbaseradexpertis kan bidra till lärande i psykiatrisk vård
2025 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
Interprofessional learning in teamwork : How controversies, gender and experience-based expertise can contribute to learning in psychiatric care.
Abstract [sv]

Interprofessionellt lärande (IPL) är det lärande som sker mellan olika professioner när de interagerar. Forskningen har främst fokuserat på det IPL som sker genom interprofessionell utbildning (IPE). Det finns begränsad forskning om IPL i teamarbete. I interprofessionella teamarbeten är medlemmarnas professionella skillnader i perspektiv, kunskaper och värderingar både en förutsättning och en utmaning för IPL. Syftet med denna avhandling är att studera IPL i teamarbete och hur professionella skillnader har implikationer för detta lärande.

Avhandlingen granskar IPL i två olika teamarbeten i en psykiatrisk vårdkontext. Allt fler vuxna, och speciellt unga, upplever olika psykiska besvär samtidigt som det rapporteras om att vård och behandling för psykiatriska tillstånd brister. Därför behöver den psykiatriska vården genom IPL utveckla sätten att bedriva vård av god kvalitet.

I den ena delen av detta forskningsarbete undersöktes ett teams arbete med riktlinjer för psykiatrisk tvångsvård och implikationerna för IPL. Detta forskningsarbete redovisas i tre studier, som baseras på en fallbeskrivning och intervjuer. En sociokulturell lärandeteori används med inslag av idéer från genus- och kontroversstudier. Resultatet visar hur en kontrovers kring en tvångsmetod kan generera IPL i teamarbetet trots att medlemmarna använder maktstrategier för att göra anspråk på kunskapsföreträde. I hanteringen av kontroversen sker IPL dels genom en kompromiss, dels genom mediering av en lagtext. Resultatet visar även hur denna kontroversprocedur kan förstås teoretiskt. Resultatet visar hur diskussioner om könsskillnader förs i arbetet med riktlinjerna för tvångsvård. I diskussioner om kön/genus kan utbyten av professionsspecifika erfarenheter och kunskaper antas generera IPL. Lärandet begränsas dock av teamets individuella kunskaper om genus, då riktlinjerna, trots konversationer om könsskillnader i psykiatrisk vård, blir könsneutrala. I det andra forskningsarbetet undersöktes konsekvenserna för IPL i teamarbeten när erfarenhetsbaserad expertis tillfördes av peer supportrar. Peer supportrar använder sina egna erfarenheter av psykisk ohälsa för att stödja brukares/patienters återhämtning. Detta forskningsarbete redovisas i två studier. Den ena studien baseras på 23 vetenskapliga artiklar, medan den andra studien prövar en hypotes. I den senare studien används en sociokulturell lärandeteori. Resultatet visar hur befintlig kunskap mestadels har rört peer supportrars inklusion i interprofessionella team. Vidare, att IPL inte har uppmärksammats i forskning om peer supportrar i teamarbeten. Samtidigt synliggör resultatet hur peer supportrar, trots en hierarki, delar sina perspektiv och kunskaper som genererar IPL i teamarbetena. Resultatet förklarar även teoretiskt hur peer supportrar som nykomlingar, när deras erfarenhetsbaserade expertis blir bejakad i sin helhet, kan bidra till IPL i psykiatriska teamarbeten.

Därmed belyser alla studier teamarbeten där professionella skillnader både begränsade och bidrog till IPL. Denna slutsats utvecklas i diskussionsdelen. Avhandlingen bidrar med ny kunskap om utmaningar och möjligheter för IPL i teamarbeten. Vidare, hur kontroverser, genus och erfarenhetsbaserad expertis kan stärka IPL. Detta kunskapsbidrag är av nytta för en bred målgrupp inom det psykiatriska området, men också inom andra områden exempelvis i den sociala sektorn.

Abstract [en]

Background, aim, and context

Interprofessional learning (IPL) is the learning that occurs when different professions interact. Research has primarily focused on the IPL that results from interprofessional education (IPE). There is limited research on IPL in teamwork. In interprofessional teamwork, the members' professional differences in terms of perspective, knowledge and values are both a prerequisite and a challenge for IPL. This thesis investigates IPL in teamwork and how professional differences have implications for this learning. This thesis examines IPL in two different teamworks in a psychiatric care context, which is a prioritized area as mental illness is an urgent societal problem to be solved. More and more adults, and especially young people, are experiencing various mental health problems, while it is reported that care and treatment, for psychiatric conditions, is lacking. Therefore, psychiatric care needs through IPL develop ways to provide good quality care.

Empirical material, theoretical frame and results

In one part of this research work, a team's work on guidelines for psychiatric compulsory care and the implications for IPL were examined. This research work is reported in three studies, which are based on a case description and interviews. A sociocultural learning theory was applied, combined with ideas from gender studies and controversy studies. The result shows how a controversy about a coercive method can generate IPL in teamwork despite members using power strategies to claim knowledge precedence. In dealing with the controversy, the IPL takes place partly through a compromise, partly through the mediation of a legal text. This controversy is also illustrated by a model that guides how controversies can facilitate IPL in teamwork. The result also shows how in the work with the guidelines there are discussions about gender differences in psychiatric care. In discussions about sex/gender, profession-specific experiences and knowledge can be assumed to generate IPL, but when the guidelines become gender neutral, IPL is limited by individual knowledge. In the second research work, the consequences for IPL in teamwork are investigated when experience-based expertise is provided by peer support workers (PSWs). These are people who use their own experiences of mental illness to support user/patient recovery. This research work is reported in two studies. The first study is based on 23 studies, whereas the second study tests a hypothesis. In the latter study ideas from a sociocultural learning theory is applied. The result shows how existing knowledge has mostly concerned the inclusion of PSWs in interprofessional teams. Furthermore, research on PSWs in teamwork has not paid attention to the IPL. At the same time, the result makes visible how PSWs, despite a hierarchy, share their perspectives and knowledge that generate IPL in teamwork. The result also theoretically explains how by being newcomers PSWs’ experience-based expertise, when validated in its entirety, can contribute to IPL in psychiatric teamwork.

Contribution of knowledge and suggestions of future research

Thus, all studies highlight teamwork where professional differences both limited and contributed to IPL. This conclusion is developed in the discussion section. The thesis contributes new knowledge about challenges and opportunities for IPL in psychiatric teamwork. Furthermore, how controversies, gender and experience-based expertise can strengthen IPL. This knowledge contribution is useful for a wide target group in the psychiatric field, but also in other fields, for example in the social sector.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Trollhättan: Högskolan Väst, 2025. p. 157
Series
PhD Thesis: University West ; 71
Keywords
Qualitative study; Interprofessional learning; Interprofessional teamwork; Professional differences; Controversy; Gender; Peer support worker; Experience-based expertise, Sociocultural theory, Kvalitativ studie; Interprofessionellt lärande; Interprofessionellt teamarbete; Professionella skillnader; Kontrovers; Genus; Peer supporter; Erfarenhetsbaserad expertis, Sociokulturell teori.
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Work Sciences Nursing
Research subject
Work Integrated Learning
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urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-22871 (URN)978-91-89969-08-7 (ISBN)978-91-89969-09-4 (ISBN)
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2025-01-31, F313, Gustava Melins gata 2, 46185, Trollhättan, 13:15 (Swedish)
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Paper 1 is to be submitted and not included in this thesis.

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