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Creating welcoming mental health work environments
Mark Salzer of Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion, wrote:
If non-peer support professionals (e.g., psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists) with mental illnesses are not accepted in the behavioral health workforce then peer specialists will not be either.
I am bothered by the many stories of discrimination towards mental health professionals with mental illnesses that I hear about and ask myself, “If we are prejudiced toward colleagues with mental illnesses, what does that mean about how we work with clients/consumers/patients?”
We have tried to draw attention to this HUGE issue. My friend and colleague, Petra Kottsieper, has been one of my teachers on this topic, and I encourage you all to watch a great presentation she and other Drexel University psychology graduates did recently on this issue in memory of a colleague https://1513041.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/1_dh7aet74.
