Personal Growth & Identity
A feeling many interns experience when they doubt their abilities despite evidence of competence.
What is imposter syndrome?
If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen—this essential practice protects both you and your client.
What is documentation?
Tangible supports that help students and families meet basic needs like food, housing, or services.
What are resources?
This calming strategy uses slow, intentional inhales and exhales to help students regulate emotions during stress or anxiety.
Breathing Techniques
A required document to submit in order to receive your final stipend payment.
What is a timesheet?
A key skill most interns strengthened this year through consultation with Task Supervisor, Intern Coordinator, and increased experience working with with clients and families
What is confidence?
A structured way to create clear, measurable, and achievable client goals.
What are SMART goals?
This peer specialist responsibility may include organizing calming tools, welcoming students, and helping maintain a safe supportive space on campus.
What is 1:1 Mentorship or Individual sessions?
This grounding activity involves holding something cold to help bring attention back to the present moment when emotions feel overwhelming.
What is the Ice Cube exercise?
A type of group many interns initially feared facilitating but ultimately succeeded in leading.
What is a grief group?
A structured Career Pipeline tool that guides interns on required activities and learning goals throughout the year.
What is the roadmap/workbook?
This small-group support activity often takes place during lunch and creates a safe space for students to build connection, practice social skills, and talk about emotions.
What is Lunch Bunch?
This peer specialist responsibility may include organizing calming tools, welcoming students, and helping maintain a safe supportive space on campus.
What is managing the Wellness Center?
This tool helps students identify what they have some, none or a little influence on. It helps them understand what they can change from what they cannot, reducing worry and building problem-solving skills.
What is the Circle of Control?
A major milestone achieved by all interns by May or June of 2025!
What is completing their first successful year with SCOE as a Peer Specialist!
A mindset clinicians must foster in both clients and themselves, especially during challenging times.
What is hope?
This helps prevent burnout by defining limits around time, energy, and emotional investment.
What are boundaries?
These structured groups help students practice communication, conflict resolution, and positive peer relationships.
This therapy helps clients identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts to change emotions and behaviors.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
This phase of the mentorship (or counseling) process focuses on preparing clients for closure/ending services, reviewing progress, and supporting a healthy end to the peer specialist-client relationship.
What is termination?
Conversations that require vulnerability and skill when addressing difficult or sensitive topics with clients or colleagues.
What are courageous (or hard) conversations?
This school-wide event often includes themed dress-up days and activities that promote school connectedness and student engagement.
What is Spirit Week?
The stages groups typically move through: forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning.
What are the stages of group development?
This interactive card game encourages conversation, connection, and emotional check-ins among students in a fun, low-pressure way.
What is the Chill Chat Challenge card game?
Who are the most dynamic peer specialists of the 2025–2026 cohort?
Who are Amanda, Morsal, Katharine, Lailoni and Myvy