Final Exam Peer Support 101

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We have a first-hand understanding of the experience of mental health challenges and the social implications, feelings, stigma, and life-long journey of recovery that accompany that experience.
We share and explore each others' perceptions of the world and walk together toward what we want.
We discover what works best for each of us, being careful never to tell someone what they should do.
We share hope and opportunities for community integration to allow each other to have control of our own recovery.
We focus on what we're good at, what we enjoy, and how we can use our strengths instead of focussing on illness and barriers
We work effortlessly to ensure each participant has access to community resources despite their differences.
Our relationships are always growing and changing, similar to our recovery.
We define safety for ourselves and negotiate our safety standards with each other through compassion, authenticity, and acceptance.

Mutual:
Reciprocal:
Non-directive:
Recovery focused:
Strengths based:
Inclusive:
Progressive:
Safe:

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invest in the development of Peer Support Specialists own personal leadership skills.
a top priority for Peer Support programs, with a well-defined process for supporting Peer Support Specialists during times of relapse.

Programs should
Self-care is

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from both professional clinical services and sponsorship or mentorship in other support groups.
of each agency must have fiscal and risk management policies in place to protect the continuation of services.

Peer Support is defined as different
The governing body

The ways we can educate and maintain our standards of ethic include:

Discuss and identify Boundaries in a peer relationship
Confidentiality and role of the Peer Specialist
Role of Mandatory reporting with emphasis on ethics
Review of the Nebraska Peer Support Code of Ethics
Review of Nebraska Peer Support Service Definition
Have sexually intimate relationships with Participants.
Use our Roles as experts on recovery to tell others what they need to do to recover,

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Adhering to the Peer Support Code of requirements on confidentiality and decision making is one of our responsibilities with Peer Support Specialists.

A part of peer professional boundaries are utilizing continuing… (choose all that apply)

training opportunities.
education.
medication compliance.
art therapy.

In Leadership and Advocacy we want to identify the correct pathway to recovery for participants based on the options that have worked for us.

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False

Select all the applicable Core Competencies within the Domain of Collaboration and Teamwork

Be familiar with resources and requirements of clinical supervision
Contribute to care team while maintaining professional relations
Establish organizational and interpersonal skills to facilitate recovery
Understand collaborative advocacy and partnership
Identify ways to inform participants of the CPS role related to Mandated Reporting
Know your state’s mandated reporting laws and inform participants of said duty to report
Enforce laws established by CPS and APS

Please select all the core competencies that apply to the Domain of Communication.

Understand effective coaching techniques such as Motivational Interviewing
Understand conflict resolution and problem- solving skills
Identify group facilitation skills to promote support and self-efficacy
Understand how to model and educate on conflict resolution
Make assumptions about a participant's diagnosis

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The type of language we use is called -centered or -first language.

Recovery Planning is largely concerned with:

Medication
Documentation
Therapy
Treatment of disorders

Peer Support Specialist’s personal wellness and recovery impacts their ability to support peers.

True
False

One type of crisis we may encounter includes Opioid overdose, in which we might have to administer:

Narcan
Oxytocin
IbuProfen
Opioids

In Crisis Management, it’s important for us to remember the effects other people’s trauma can have on our own:

diet
exercise
therapy
wellness
mental health

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Understand ways to promote holistic Health and Wellness including utilizing healthy recreation and relationships; enacting self-awareness
Understand goal setting based on diagnoses and symptoms

Domain of Health, Wellness, and Recovery Skills
Medical Model of Treatment

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Use goal setting, self-determination, and informed decision making as strategies to promote wellness
Describe the uses, side effects, and our own recommendations of prescription medications.

Domain of Health, Wellness, and Recovery Skills
Medical Model of Treatment

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In the Domain of Resources, , and Services we want to maintain and use available and current resources to continue peer-support education to advocate and endorse wellness and .

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In the Domain of Personalized Peer Support we want to understand the importance of respect including as it relates to cultural and beliefs and practices of peers and their families.

All of the following are competencies within Personalized Peer Support except:

Understands what Peer Support is and the history of it
Understand and practice empowering person-centered recovery with power to choose
Understand how personal values and culture may contribute to biases, judgments and beliefs
Understand the cause of substance use disorders

In the Domain of Lived experience we want to:

Understand mutuality and the benefits
Model personal recovery and self-care
Educate family members to understand and practice supporting the person in power of choice and self-advocacy
Develop strategies to combat compassion fatigue with peer self-care and awareness
withhold our personal experiences as to prevent participants from knowing too much about us

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When using our lived experience we want to understand the way to use our and lived experience to be a change agent for person-centered care and system advancements.

Match the following statements regarding the Domain of Support in Peer Support.

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Recognize, understand, and effectively navigate the impact of trauma on recovery with trauma-informed care principles
Creating goals based on the Peer Support Specialists wants

Domain of Support:
Medical model of treatment:

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Ability to assist individuals in identifying their basic needs, support systems, and strengths and resiliencies
Enforcing consequences upon participants

Domain of Support:
Medical model of treatment:

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Ability to assist individuals with identifying and setting personal peer-driven goals to capitalize on said strengths and resiliencies
Assuring medication compliance

Domain of Support:
Medical Model of service:

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We work to build relationships through mutual and .

Engagement tells us to value ______________________.

positive interpersonal skils
medication
therapy over peer relationships
hierarchical relationships

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Recovery Systems of Care have gained traction and are the foundation of Peer Support theory and practice.

Which president established The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health?

Bill Clinton
Barrack Obama
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon

Sort the following events in chronological order.

California created the first ever statewide consumer network.
The Deinstitutionalization movement begin giving way to Mental Health Community Construction Act, Community Support Programs, and activists began demonstrating for the rights of behavioral health consumers.
Antipsychotic drugs were introduced. Many had horrible side effects, which weren't addressed until much later.
Peer Support group Fountain House was created in the 1940's and still exists today.
The New Deal opened doors for more access to care and services.

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Inhumane experiments conducted on people with mental health concerns include all of the following except:

Insulin induced comas
Convulsions due to camphor injections
Intentional infection of Malaria
Frontal lobotomies
Talk therapy

Who was the founder of a National Mental Health Association and author of “A Mind That Found Itself”?

Clifford Beers
Lenard Greer
Mildred Deer
Sheldon Schwartz

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Dorothea became a mental health advocate determined to open mental health hospitals.

There were a lot of services for people with mental health concerns in the 1800’s

True
False

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In the 1700’s, the first psychiatric opened.

What derogatory word was used to describe people with mental health concerns in the 1600’s?

crazy
lunatic
agitated
disruptive

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Learning to overcome, manage or more successfully live with the symptoms and make healthy choices that support one's physical and emotional wellbeing.
A stable and safe place to live
Meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteer work, or creative endeavors; increased ability to lead a self-directed life; and meaningful engagement in society
Relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope

1. Health
2. Home
3. Purpose
4. Community

According to SAMHSA, many pathways to recovery may include:

Professional clinical treatment
use of medication
support for families and in schools
faith-based approaches
peer support

According to SAMHSA’s definition of Recovery:

Recovery is a process of change through which individuals improve their and wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their potential.

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Peer workers are partners or consultants to those they serve. They do not dictate the types of services provided or the elements of recovery plans that will guide their work with peers. Participation in peer recovery support services is always contingent on peer choice.
Peer workers hold out hope to those they serve, partnering with them to envision and achieve a meaningful and purposeful life. Peer workers help those they serve to identify and build on strengths and empower them to choose for themselves, recognizing that there are multiple pathways to recovery.
Peer recovery support services are always directed by the person participating in services. Peer recovery support is personalized to align with the specific hopes, goals, and preferences of the individual served and to respond to specific needs the individuals has identified to the peer worker.
The relationship between the peer worker and the peer is the foundation on which peer recovery support services and support are provided. The relationship between the peer worker and peer is respectful, trusting, empathetic, collaborative, and mutual.
Peer recovery support utilizes a strengths-based framework that emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety and creates opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.

VOLUNTARY:
RECOVERY-ORIENTED:
PERSON-CENTERED:
RELATIONSHIP-FOCUSED:
TRAUMA-INFORMED:

Match the following statements regarding Peer Support Specialists Roles.

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Peer Support Specialists might educate the public and policymakers.
Peer Support Specialists might share traumatic details about their own experiences regardless of the participant's history.

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Peer Support Specialists might supervise other peer workers.
Peer Support Specialists might vent about participant's behavior to coworkers.

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Peer Support Specialists might provide services and/or training.
Peer Support Specialists might manage medications for a participant.

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Match the following statements aboout peer support activities.

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Peer Support Specialists mentor and set goals with the participant based on the participant's wants.
Peer Support Specialists lead participants into doing things based on the Peer Support Specialist's wants.

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It is common for peer support workers to all of the following activities except:

Building community and relationships
Advocating for people in recovery
Sharing resources and building skills
Creating goals for the participant

Peer Support Workers:

Inspire hope that people can and do recover
treat diagnoses using the medical model
walk with people on their recovery journeys
Break the stigma about what it means to have a mental health condition or substance use disorder
Judge people's symptoms based on our own experiences

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Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support workers support people in becoming and staying engaged in the process and reduce the likelihood of .

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