Intentional Peer Support
This person is the founder of Intentional Peer Support.
Who is Shery Meade?
Dan Siegal is known for this model of understanding how our nervous system responds to stressors and trauma.
Bonus 100 points to name the trauma-informed, strengths-based alternative to the "____ ___ ____" created by Carlie Atkinson. This model is shifting focus from simply "coping" with stress to actively exercising agency, intentionality, and relational connection. It emphasizes moving beyond mere survival (hyper/hypoarousal) to empower individuals to consciously choose their responses to challenging situations
What is the Window of Tolerance?
What is the Window of Choice?
True or False: The peer role is to tell people they should/should not take medication.
True or False: The peer role is to explore possibilities alongside someone with a focus on shared responsibility, informed consent, mutuality, voice and choice?
What is false?
What is false?
What is true?
_______________ is a state of passivity resulting from repeated, uncontrollable failure, where one believes actions cannot influence outcomes.
Conversely, ____________ is the cultivated, resilient belief that actions matter, focusing on skill-building and proactive control to improve future circumstances
What is learned helplessness?
What is learned hopefulness?
These two models are designed to support us before, during and post crisis. Each of these models prioritizes identifying what you look like when you are well, when things are breaking down, signs you are in crisis and what post crisis looks like. Both models emphasize the importance of making these plans while we are well, for when we are not and the value of sharing the plan with supporters.
Bonus 100 if you can state which model came first.
What is WRAP, Wellness Recovery Action Plan?
What is Taking Action for Whole Health and Wellbeing?
These three principles are the foundation of Intentional Peer Support.
What is...
From Helping to Learning, From Individual to Relationship, From Fear to Hope,
These three states of activation are present in Steven Porges theory model.
Name the three states, and the name of the theory.
What is polyvagal theory?
What are the Ventral Vagal (safety/social), Sympathetic (fight/flight), and Dorsal Vagal (shutdown/freeze) states of the nervous system?
As peers, we turn ___________ into ______________ and share those insights BUT it is not the only tool we use.
We do not always have to ______ _______ to offer peer support. We can utilize other alternatives to advice.
Three terms in total.
What is experience and expertise?
What is self disclose?
______________is the shared values, beliefs, traditions, behaviors, and ways of living that connect a group of people.
What is culture?
This person is known for her model focused on various areas of wellness. At the beginning of the term each peer completed a wellness inventory to see which areas we are doing well in, and where we may need more supports.
In additional to the model name, list each category.
What is Margaret "Peggy" Swarbricks 8 Dimensions of Wellness Model
What are the emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual areas of wellness?
Describe what Shery means by "whose got the keys" in Intentional Peer Support.
What is-
"Who's got the keys" is a metaphor used in Intentional Peer Support (IPS) to describe the shift in power dynamics from traditional, hierarchical "helper" roles to mutual, collaborative relationships.
Instead of a professional (who holds the "keys" to the institution or the "answers") helping a passive client, IPS promotes a "fellow traveler" approach where both individuals share responsibility and co-learn
This process is often referred to as "flipping the lid". It involves three major parts of the brain.
List the three parts of the brain [with hand motion] and describe what the process is.
What is a moment when extreme stress, anger, or fear that causes the emotional brain (limbic system) to take over, overriding the rational thinking brain (prefrontal cortex).
We go from curious brain to survival brain.
_______________ is a roadmap that will help you achieve your long-term career goals. It is a way to identify your strengths and weaknesses, set achievable goals, and create a path to personal success.
_________________ goals are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time bound.
What is a strategic career plan?
What are SMART goals?
__________________ involves attitudes or beliefs we are aware of and may openly express. These beliefs can directly shape how we speak, act, and make decisions about others.
__________________refers to automatic thoughts or reactions we have without realizing it. These unconscious associations are shaped by social messages and experiences and can influence our behavior even when we believe we are being fair.
____________________ is an error in thinking. We hold a belief and our brain accumulates all the data it can to prove that belief is true while ignoring or dismissing data to the contrary.
What is explicit bias?
What is implicit bias?
What is confirmation bias?
_______ _______ should not lead the focus of the meeting from individual to worker.
______ _____ is used to inspire not to vent.
If we are not recovery focused and hope inspired, our ________ ____________ may leave the person we are supposed to be supporting feeling like they need to save us or comfort us. It steps out of mutuality.
*All blanks are the same term.
What is self-disclosure?
These are the four tasks of Intentional Peer Support.
What is worldview, connection, mutuality and moving towards?
Name the foundational study showing that childhood trauma—such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction—is common and directly linked to severe, long-term physical, mental, and social health issues, including chronic diseases, reduced lifespan, and increased risk-taking behaviors.
For full points name both studies and the reason for the second study.
What was Filetti's ACES study?
What was the Philadelphia study? The Philadelphia study included extended ACES that integrated community factors such as violence, over policing, and had a more racially/socioeconomically diverse sampling size.
Both studies highlighted the subjective nature of trauma.
_________ ___________ is a part of crisis prevention models like WRAP or Taking Action for Whole Health and Wellbeing. It consists of a variety of actions one can take when encountering stressors. The idea is we can be self-responsible when triggers happen to take care of ourselves and keep options/choices open.
What is a wellness toolbox?
Professional Boundaries have certain elements that are 1)____________ and some that are 2)_________.
1._________________
•Scope/Focus of the particular job role
•Ethics
2.______________
•The worker’s personal limits and preferences
•The program participant’s personal limits and preferences
•Other special considerations (e.g. clinical)
What is consistent and what is flexible?
Dr. Daniel Amen shared a tool to rewrite automatic negative thoughts we may have through his A.N.T.S and Anteater process. List the questions he asks us to answer and to reframe our perception.
Is it true?
Is it always true?
What do I feel when I have these thoughts? Who would I be, or how would I feel without these thoughts?
How do I turn this to its realistic opposite?
Example: All my coworkers hate me.
Rewrite: It is unlikely all my coworkers hate me. I have been invited to lunches and to hang out on break. I am building relationships to feel more connected, it's okay to feel lonely and it is going to take time.
Scenario: You are offering peer support to Perry, who recently got out of a stay at a psychiatric unit. He reports he has returned to work and is "feeling better". Towards the end of your meeting, he shares "I have decided to stop taking my medication, I feel funky and I think it'll help me". Provide a hope inspired response that includes sharing your concerns.
Any response that includes:
Exploring options
Naming concerns
Center choice and voice
Using See, Feel, Need
Intentional self-disclosure
Example-
"In the past when I have readjusted back to life after the hospital, medication was one of the tools that helped me. When I stopped taking my medication, it made it harder for me to stay focused and manage my stress. I think that's where my concern is coming from, I want to make sure you have helpful tools for your recovery and managing stress. It sounds like you have a different experience with medication, can you tell me more about that? Have you stopped taking them in the past? What was that like for you?".
Gabor Mate expands on this analogy in a video we watched in class. He shares that the _______ is actually the smallest part of the gun, and shifting focus to the _______ _________ we carry can lead to a liberatory life.
What is a trigger?
What is explosive ammunition [or trauma]?
You are working with a participant who speaks a different language from you. List the following options 1-5 in order you would try them.
___Ask for them to be transferred to another person's workload who speaks the same language (if available).
_____Download translation applications on my phone to utilize in our meetings
_____Call an interpreter service and put them on speaker phone
_____Make sure all documents are provided in their native language and research additional supports
____ Express concerns my supervisor about providing meaningful peer support and the impact of language barriers on that connection.
_5__Ask for them to be transferred to another person's workload who speaks the same language (if available).
__4___Download translation applications on my phone to utilize in our meetings
__3___Call an interpreter service and put them on speaker phone
__2___Make sure all documents are provided in their native language and research additional supports
__1__ Express concerns my supervisor about providing meaningful peer support and the impact of language barriers on that connection.
_______ __________ is a lifelong self-reflection, addressing power inequities, institutional accountability and not ethnocentrism are key components to this practice.
What is cultural humility?
The ________ _________ is a saying used to highlight the benefits of having documentation that tells a clear story of peer support and services.
This saying or motto highlights the importance of documenting in a timely fashion to both maintain funding, for liability purposes and to track progress.
Share the term, and the motto to get complete points.
What is the golden thread?
What is "if you didn't document it, it didn't happen"?