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3rd Meeting of the International Open Dialogue Research Collaboration

Keynote: "Introducing Peer supported Open Dialogue in England:
opportunities and challenges"

The introduction of Open Dialogue (OD) in the English National Health Service (NHS) has received considerable support from mental health service users, their support network and practitioners. It has the potential to offer a more inclusive way of working with mental distress and crisis. In the NHS the role of peer workers is also being developed, presenting opportunities for integrating peer practitioners into OD teams.

The first national trial evaluating OD in English NHS mental health services - Open Dialogue: Development and Evaluation of a Social Network Intervention for Severe Mental Illness (ODDESSI) - includes an explicit commitment to the inclusion of peer practitioners in OD teams. This is a variation on the Open Dialogue approach as originally developed in Western Lapland, with the added value of peer practitioners who have had their own experience of mental distress and personal recovery, and of using mental health services. In the UK, the peer practitioner role has been inspired by the US Intentional Peer Support (IPS) model that values peer experience and is fundamentally dialogical. This approach is considered as having the potential to provide a good ‘fit’ with OD.

This presentation will introduce the ODDESSI OD research trial and the emerging challenges and benefits of the peer practitioner role in OD teams. The presenters are researchers in the ODDESSI trial and have both experienced mental distress and service use. They will describe the service user and support network involvement in the study and discuss the foundational development work with peer practitioners from each of the five trial sites. They will examine some of the anticipated challenges for introducing peer practitioners into OD teams from the existing research, and discuss initial peer practitioner experiences from the Action Learning Sets that have been held with peer practitioners from the trial sites.

The 3rd Meeting of the International Open Dialogue Research Collaboration was organized within the HOPEnDialogue project. For further information, please visit our website at https://www.hopendialogue.net/

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