ABSTRACT

People who have experienced mental health problems often encounter stigmatisation, mainly by professional mental health care providers. Therefore, involvement of experts by experience in courses taught at a higher education institution that provides training for future healthcare professionals aims at destigmatising mental illnesses. Peer trainers have a lived mental health problems experience who take on the role of trainers to present the latest mental health care trends and theories and introduce recovery elements into the educational process.

The data on which the article is based were gathered over a period of three years from focus groups involving 2nd year students of the bachelor’s degree programme of ‘Clinical Social Worker’. The results obtained clearly show the destigmatising effect of this type of teaching: what has proven to be crucial in this regard was, on the one hand, the experience of former patients, and on the other hand, a counterweight to the often-one-sided information prevalent in professional literature on mental health available in the Czech Republic. The teaching reinforced the students’ ability to work in a multidisciplinary team together with a peer support worker and also undermined any prejudice they may have had towards people with mental health problems.

摘要

经历过心理健康问题的人经常会遭受污名化，尤其是受到专业心理健康护理人员的污名化。因此，让经验丰富的专家参与高等教育机构教授的课程，为未来的医疗保健专业人员提供培训，目的是消除精神疾病的污名化。同伴培训师拥有丰富的心理健康问题经验，他们扮演培训师的角色，介绍最新的心理健康护理趋势和理论，并将康复元素引入教育过程。

本文所依据的数据是在三年内从“临床社会工作者”学士学位课程二年级学生的焦点小组中收集的。所获得的结果清楚地表明了这种类型的教学的去污名化效果：事实证明，在这方面至关重要的是，一方面是以前患者的经历，另一方面是对经常出现的一种情况的平衡。捷克共和国心理健康专业文献中普遍存在的侧面信息。教学增强了学生与同伴支持人员在多学科团队中合作的能力，并消除了他们对有心理健康问题的人可能存在的任何偏见。