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Crisis Plans (CP) are meant to be authored by the service users who may experience a crisis, but in practice, clinicians often write them instead. Peer-led CP practice has been proposed as a catalyst for recovery-oriented transformation, yet how it actually generates organizational change remains theoretically underspecified.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aim<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study aimed to identify the generative mechanisms and structural conditions through which peer-led CP practice transforms psychiatric ward culture in Japan.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We interviewed thirteen nurses, managers, and peer support workers (PSWs) at two psychiatric hospitals. An integrated qualitative design was used: interview data were first analysed inductively using the Modified Grounded Theory Approach (M-GTA), then re-examined through Realist Evaluation (RE) to identify causal mechanisms. Archer's morphogenetic approach was applied to interpret how organizational structures change or persist.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Broad change in ward relationships developed when three mechanisms operated together: the hospital, rather than the individual nurse, taking responsibility for clinical risk (M1); the staged introduction of PSWs' lived-experience knowledge via a bridging staff member (M2); and staff letting go of the assumption that their job is to manage the person, allowing the peer-led return of CP authorship to the service user (M3). When these operated together, roles reversed: service users came to ask for care, and professionals responded. In the negative case (a site without PSWs), CP practice produced only individual-level change that was ultimately reabsorbed into existing practice.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>PSWs occupy a structurally distinctive position: standing between the ward's existing conditions and the processes that change them, they turn structural constraint into a driver of change. It appears to be the maintained tension and ongoing disagreement between professional and lived-experience perspectives that sustains this change and the self-questioning on which durable transformation depends.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyt.2026.1915695","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,11]],"date-time":"2026-09-11T05:29:27Z","timestamp":1789104567000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Why peer-led crisis plan practice does \u2014 and does not \u2014 transform psychiatric ward culture: a realist-informed qualitative study from Japan"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Mikie","family":"Ebihara","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Jikei University School of Nursing","place":["Chofu, 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