Peer-support, feedback and reminders keep patients using health apps When it comes to using health apps as a part of research or health system initiatives, peer support, feedback and reminders ...

College students at the Johns Hopkins University (Photo by JHU Sheridan Libraries/Gado/Getty Images). When it comes to tackling the unprecedented mental health issues facing today’s teens and young ...

Across higher education, colleges and universities are tapping their student population to support learners, in part because counseling staff can’t accommodate the high levels of demand, but also ...

Peer counseling for mental health has grown in popularity as a solution to address rising rates of student wellness concerns. Since 2020, 94 percent of college presidents have taken at least one ...

When Alicia Doty was in a Shakopee prison for drug-related charges stemming from her methamphetamine addiction, volunteers who had once shared her experience visited during her 1 1/2-year sentence.

Transgender and gender-diverse individuals often experience additional difficulties navigating health care. A study appearing in The Annals of Family Medicine examined the effectiveness of a peer ...

Creating a healthy campus culture. The Office of Health Promotion offers a peer health education program for William & Mary students. Peer education is an approach where individuals with similar ...

Background and goal: Transgender and gender-diverse individuals often experience additional difficulties navigating health care. This study examined the effectiveness of a peer health navigator pilot ...

The Peer Health Educator (PHE) Program, is the student-based health promotion and education organization at Santa Clara University, operating out of the SCU Wellness Center (located at 852 Market ...

Adolescent me. At the library. Looking at a bulletin board. It had been a rough year for me and my mental health with hospitalizations, intensive outpatient, medications, and therapy. I often wondered ...

In previous books and papers, I’ve asserted that a tectonic shift in the delivery of mental health services is required, especially in the delivery of psychological support during and in the wake of ...

Background and Goal: Transgender and gender-diverse individuals often experience additional difficulties navigating health care. This study examined the effectiveness of a peer health navigator pilot ...