Peer Support for Chronic Disease

This is the first book to provide not only guidance on how to set up and monitor a peer support intervention, but also the theoretical principles on which it is based. Widely applied by a range of community agencies, peer support is a cost effective and highly accessible therapeutic intervention to provide social and emotional support, and the book explores how it can be used for a range of patients, including those with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer or suffering from a mental illness