Many Ways to Recover
This concept emphasizes that individuals can choose from a variety of approaches, including 12-step programs, faith-based methods, and medication-assisted treatment.
What are multiple pathways?
This core technique in peer-based communication involves listening attentively and reflecting back what the individual has said to demonstrate understanding.
What is active listening?
Something that we experience first-hand that is so impactful that it becomes part of our identity.
What is lived experience?
This approach recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and emphasizes the importance of creating environments that promote safety, empowerment, and healing, especially for individuals who have experienced adversity.
What is trauma-informed?
This principle requires peer supporters to keep shared information confidential, except in cases where harm may occur.
What is confidentiality?
This pathway involves finding healing and recovery through connecting with religious beliefs and practices, often involving community or faith-based support.
What is faith-based recovery?
This open-ended method of asking questions allows individuals to freely express their thoughts, helping the peer supporter understand their perspective without directing the conversation
What are open-ended questions?
This core principle in peer support highlights the importance of working together, sharing power, and making decisions as equals.
What is mutuality?
This term describes an action or decision that is made by free choice, without coercion, and often driven by personal will or desire rather than obligation.
What is voluntary?
This ethical guideline ensures that peer supporters respect the boundaries and autonomy of those they help.
What is maintaining boundaries?
This approach to recovery uses a combination of counseling, therapy, and prescribed medications like methadone or buprenorphine to manage addiction.
What is medication-assisted treatment (MAT)?
*MARS would be the preferred answer.
This technique helps build trust by letting individuals know their thoughts and feelings are understood and accepted without judgment or criticism.
What is validation?
In peer support, this is the act of showing appreciation and understanding for someone's emotions, experiences, and perspectives.
What is empathy?
This approach emphasizes the importance of building and maintaining strong connections between individuals, often prioritizing collaboration, trust, and mutual support over task-oriented outcomes.
What is relationship-focused?
This principle warns peer supporters to avoid entering into personal, social, or financial relationships with those they support to prevent conflicts of interest.
What is avoiding dual-relationships?
This pathway to recovery focuses on self-empowerment and making personal decisions without the need for a higher power or group-based support.
What is natural recovery?
This approach to communication in peer support involves offering personal stories of recovery or challenge to foster connection and inspire hope.
What is sharing lived experience?
This term describes the process of navigating boundaries between personal and professional relationships that peer supporters must consider carefully to avoid conflicts of interest or harm.
What is ethical decision making?
This principle refers to the right of individuals or groups to make their own choices and control their own lives without external influence.
What is self-determination?
True or False. This fundamental principle of peer support ensures that peer supporters avoid actions that could cause harm include emotional, physical, or psychological harm to those they are helping.
What is true?
This form of recovery emphasizes the focus on minimizing negative consequences rather than complete abstinence from substances.
What is harm reduction?
*Alternative acceptable answers are moderation management or safe use.
This principle emphasizes the importance of respecting an individual's autonomy, recognizing that change must come from within rather than being imposed by the peer supporter.
What is self-determination?
This type of support is provided by individuals with lived experience of a particular challenge or recovery process, offering mutual understanding and empathy.
What is peer support?
The principle that recognizes there are inherent risks in the choices a person makes.
What is "dignity of risk"?
This ethical guideline focuses on treating everyone with respect and avoiding any form of discrimination or bias in peer support
What is non-discrimination?