Certified peer specialist roles and activities: Results from a national survey

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 520-523

  Salzer, Mark S ^a   Schwenk, Edward ^b   Brusilovskiy, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Creative Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERTIFIED PEER SPECIALIST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; MEDICAID; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PEER GROUP; UNITED STATES; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77952783724     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2010.61.5.520     Document Type: Article

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