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Why do patients sometimes resist peer counseling? - Julie Gassaway, MS, RN

Why do patients sometimes resist peer counseling?

Julie Gassaway, MS, RN

Director Health and Wellness, ‎Shepherd Center, Atlanta

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Peer counseling can be thought of as just one more thing I have to do. “Do I have to have another meeting?” “Do I have to go to another appointment?” “Is someone else going to come into my room?” “I am tired; I may not want to do this, ... Show More

Peer counseling can be thought of as just one more thing I have to do. “Do I have to have another meeting?” “Do I have to go to another appointment?” “Is someone else going to come into my room?” “I am tired; I may not want to do this, so I may not see the value of it right away.” Typically in our experience anyway, when people do that they can be resistant for a little while. But after impromptu run-ins, if you will, with the peer counselor, they kind of see the value. And sometimes that resistance changes where instead of being resistant, people are really looking forward to talking with a peer because they do realize it is just somebody else like me, it’s not another clinician telling me what to do, it is somebody kind of showing me the way.

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Why do patients sometimes resist peer counseling?

Julie Gassaway, MS, RN

Director Health and Wellness, ‎Shepherd Center, Atlanta

More Videos by Julie Gassaway
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Peer counseling can be thought of as just one more thing I have to do. “Do I have to have another meeting?” “Do I have to go to another appointment?” “Is someone else going to come into my room?” “I am tired; I may not want to do this, so I may not see the value of it right away.” Typically in our experience anyway, when people do that they can be resistant for a little while. But after impromptu run-ins, if you will, with the peer counselor, they kind of see the value. And sometimes that resistance changes where instead of being resistant, people are really looking forward to talking with a peer because they do realize it is just somebody else like me, it’s not another clinician telling me what to do, it is somebody kind of showing me the way.

Why do patients sometimes resist peer counseling?
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