Peer Support Fundamentals:
Ask, Listen, Encourage, Follow-Up

by Brian Casey
110 pages
Paperback $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-7325651-4-2
Published by Alley Light Press
September 2022

Peer Support Fundamentals: Ask, Listen, Encourage, Follow-Up answers the most pressing mental and emotional issues peer team members may encounter—presented in simple and relatable terms.

Imagine gaining the knowledge, skills, practice and confidence to help your troubled coworkers. Peer Support Fundamentals helps you do just that by delivering lessons that benefit you individually, your coworkers and your workgroup. A workgroup who utilizes Peer Support Fundamentals and builds a high-functioning peer support team creates a system that makes helping coworkers easier.

This hands-on peer support and wellness workbook gives you the principles, basic knowledge, and essential skills needed to best support coworkers in mental and emotional distress. Each chapter includes powerful and engaging activities that can be used individually or as a group process to explore, reinforce, and deepen understanding of the concepts presented in the book. Peer Support Fundamentals can be an economical and practical tool for initial or ongoing peer support training that locks in learning while providing relevance to your unique workplace.

Topics include:

• Building and maintaining trust

• Guiding Principles of Peer Support

• What peer support IS and IS NOT

• Listening, talking and intervening skills

• Recognizing invitations to peer support

• Overview of stress, anxiety and depression, relationship conflicts, psychological trauma, alcohol and suicide concerns

• Team member health and resilience, and much more