Terms
SUD
What is Substance Use Disorder
This our primary contact when in-doubt, overwhelmed, or uncertain how to proceed.
Who is a Supervisor?
This is item #1 on Ohio CPRS Pledge Code of Ethics.
What is "Keep My Recovery First"?
("My primary obligation and responsibility is my personal recovery")
WRAP
What is Wellness Recovery Action Plan?
A question or statement that cannot be answered with "yes" or "no," intended to evoke additional information.
What is "Open-Ended" ?
MHD
What is Mental Health Disorder
These Goals are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound.
What are SMART Goals?
In SAMHSAs 12 Guiding Principles of Recovery, this one means that PRSs do not force or coerce others to participate in peer support services
What is Peer Support is Voluntary?
This occurs when non-peer colleagues assign a peer supporter tasks that are outside of the CPRSs scope.
What is Organizational Peer Drift?
This technique involves speaking and moving slowly, lowering our voice, and sitting down if appropriate.
What is Low and Slow?
A process of change, through which an individual improves their health and wellness, lives a self-directed life and strives to reach their full potential.
What is RECOVERY?
This is done intentionally, to support wellness and recovery.
What is self-care?
This is when it's ok to socialize with or date a peer, or accept facebook or instagram invitations from them.
What is NEVER ?
These are various terms for the stress an individual may experience due to empathy with others who are going through trauma.
What is Secondary Traumatic Stress, Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue or Secondary Trauma?
Eye contact, head nods, not interrupting, focus on understanding rather than responding...
What are active listening skills ?
An event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced as harmful or threatening and has a lasting adverse effect on the individual.
What is Trauma?
A conversational method of evoking information and overcoming ambivalence.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
1 hour of this, is required for every 40 hours of Peer Support work provided.
What is Supervision?
This number can be used to access a crisis hotline, or a peer-support warmline.
What is 988 ? (or text 741 741)
As mandated reporters, breaching confidentiality may be necessary in certain situations, including:
Knowledge of a child, person over 62, or animals are being harmed.
A collection of resources a peer can use to support their recovery
What is Recovery Capital?
A list of behaviors, qualities or characteristics, mutually agreed-upon, which serves as a foundation for what is expected during interactions.
What is a Comfort Agreement?
This occurs when a PRS is related to, or had a previous friendship with a peer.
What is a dual relationship?
Examples of Self-Care.
What are (any of the following) Journaling, music, exercise, breathing, hygiene, laughter, socializing, art, nature, pet care, relaxing...
These are known as OARS
What are: Open-ended questions/statements
Affirming statements
Reflecting language
Summarizing