Recovery
Peer Support
Stigma
Recovery
Miscellaneous
100
A journey of healing and transformation enabling a person with a mental health problem to live a meaningful life in a community of his or her choice while striving to achieve his or her full potential.
What is mental health recovery?
100
Provides Peer Support staff their credibility with other Veterans who are struggling.
What is lived experience?
100
A word we used to use to describe Veterans who chose not to do what we thought they should do.
What is noncompliant?
100
Something you demonstrate when you listen to a Veteran; view him or her as an individual with unique life experiences, mental health challenges, and coping abilities; and work with his or her own goals.
What is respect?
100
Brendan Wilson
Who is our facility's privacy officer?
200
A document intended to honor Veterans' self-direction, allowing them to lead, control, exercise choice over, and determine their own path toward recovery...while collaborating with a mental health provider.
What is a Mental Health Suite treatment plan?
200
Occurs when a frustrated Veteran agrees to continue seeking mental health services, after receiving encouragement from a Peer Specialist.
What is re-engagement?
200
A group of Veterans who provide feedback to Mental Health staff, promote VA services, advocate for other Veterans, and thereby reduce stigma.
What is the Amarillo Regional Veterans Mental Health Council?
200
Care that recognizes the uniqueness of each Veteran and seeks to individualize and personalize the services provided.
What is person-centered care?
200
The Average Joes
What is Joe Quattlebaum's side gig?
300
Something Veterans take on as they become more independent and make their own choices.
What is responsibility?
300
A process in which Peer Specialists help Veterans think ahead, in order to better communicate what it is they want to accomplish.
What is goal setting?
300
A commonly used word that can inadvertently create a power differential between a Veteran and his or her mental health provider.
What is a patient?
300
Care that is based on continual growth with occasional setbacks, but not seen as a one-size-fits-all, step-by-step process.
What is nonlinear care?
300
14 days maximum, but usually the same day.
How long must a new patient wait to be seen in Mental Health?
400
An adjective for recovery-oriented care, because of its emphasis on Veterans' multiple strengths, resiliency, coping abilities, and capabilities. (Hint: It's not symptoms-based.)
What is strengths-based?
400
Veterans' increased involvement in their own care, as well as increased social relationships.
What are benefits of peer support?
400
Writing on this was one way in which we encouraged Veterans to share their stories and reduce stigma related to mental health, particularly military sexual trauma.
What is a T-shirt?
400
Care that encompasses the varied aspects of an individual's life, including mind, body, spirit, and community.
What is holistic care?
400
Hispanic heritage
With what presentation did Rita recently wow an audience?
500
Encouraging the belief that Veterans can take actions and make decisions on their own, as well as providing tools for them to do so.
What is empowerment?
500
Less inpatient use; more time and engagement with the community; better engagement with clinicians; greater satisfaction with life; greater quality of life; greater hopefulness; better social functioning; and fewer problems and needs.
What does the research say about peer support?
500
One of the more visually appealing parts of our building...and provided by Veterans who are finding success on the path to recovery.
What is the Victory Garden?
500
The essential and motivating message that people can and do overcome barriers and obstacles.
What is hope?
500
What Dr. Lambert would rather be eating right now.
What is Thai food?
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