
Mar 06, 2012, 05:48 AM
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Member Since: Feb 2012
Location: MA
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Originally Posted by amandalouise
titles in the US are uniform for things like mental disorders because treatment providers use the same diagnostic manual.
But for something like this peer oriented events,can be called anything the peers want it to be.. sometimes though what its called depends upon many factors like what the person will be actually doing example the title peer facilitator means the CPS person is guiding a whole group of people in the same topic of support or work shop where as a CPS person that meets with clients on an individual basis and doing more work than just being the head honcho of the group, is called a peer counselor. when working with children because things like doctors, therapists and counselors are pretty scary for children to think about we use the term peer mentor, or mentor instead of the title peer counselor.
it all depends upon many factors.. job description, ages of the clients, the agency rules and regulations... and many others.
here in the USA we have free will, no one tells us what we **have*** to call our job positions. one person may say teacher another may say educator, another may say tutor, one person may say doctor, another may say physician another may say treatment provider, another one may say the guy who dishes out my meds,... one person may say janitor, another may say garbage collector, another may say custodian, another person might even call it a maid.. another may say the servant.... someone may call it a tv others may call it a tellie, others may call it the boob tube,....the USA is a big country where we have many different towns, cities, valleys, mountains.....many different races, cultures, religions, political views....so we have many different languages, vocabularies and standards of speech.
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Good Point. Maybe there are more peer workers out there than I thought. It's just that a lot of different names are being used.
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