At the core of peer support is the value placed on the use of lived experience of mental health difficulties (including the experience of caring for someone with experience of mental health difficulties) and seeing this as a form of expertise.
Competences outlined in this document are detailed in The Competence Framework for Mental Health Peer Support Workers – Part 2: Full Listing of the Competences, available online and as a PDF at:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-psychology/competency-maps/peer-support-map.html
The curriculum (Part 3) is closely mapped to the competence framework (Part 2), which provides a more detailed account of the knowledge and skills associated with models of peer support, and which is accompanied by a supporting document (Part 1), which is intended to be read before Part 2.
Some of the competences in this document have a space above or below them, to group areas of knowledge together where relevant.